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Cruelty to animals

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SHOCKING: Animal Cruelty Exposed at Papanack Zoo

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Cruelty to Animals

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Animal Cruelty

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The cruelty of animal transports | DW Documentary

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction by omission or by commission by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human. More narrowly, it can be the causing of harm or suffering for specific achievement, such as killing animals for food or for their fur; opinions differ about the extent of cruelty associated with a given method of slaughter. Cruelty to animals sometimes encompasses inflicting harm or suffering as an end in itself, defined as zoosadism.
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