Man's Best Friend

ASPCA Commercial

This commercial gives me an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach everytime it comes on!

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William, Erin E. Why Animals Matter: The Case of Animal Protection. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2007. The purpose of this book to inform people why animal abuse matters. This book examines the exploitation and lax legal protection in hunting and the meat, medicine, fashion, entertainment, and pet industries. It is a good source because it answers the question of "Why it matters."

Part 5

Vaughn, Michael G. "Correltes of Cruelty to Animals in the United States." Journal of Psychiatric Research (2009): 1213. The purpose of this article is to examine the sociodemographic behavior and pychiatric correlates for cruelty to animals in the United States. This article infroms us about how cruelty of animals is associated with elevated rates observed in young, poor, men with family histories of antisocial behavior and personal histories of conduct disorders in childhood, and antisocial, obsessive, compulsive personality disorders. This is relevant to my topic because it tells us a little bit about why people abuse animals.

Part 4

Society, The Humane. The Humane Society. June 2010. <www.humanesociety.org>. The Humane Society of the United States is the largest animal protection organization. The purpose of the webpage, The Humane Socitey wants to reduce suffering and improve the lives of all animals. They work to get better laws, and investigate animal cruelty. The Humane Society is a good source because they want to elliminate animal abuse.

Part 3

PETA. "Animals Used for Clothing." 2010. PETA. <www.peta.org>. The purpose of this article on the web is to inform people about the negative affects of killing animals to make clothes and to persuade people not to buy the clothing. This article talks about all the differenct ways animals are used to make clothing, whether it is for their fur or skin. People are killing animals everyday because they can sell them and make money. When most people think of animal abuse they think of animals being beaten or neglected, they often don't think of them being killed to make clothing, this applies to my topic because it is just as much animal abuse as beating your animal is.

Part 2

Loew, Brian M. Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships. Contemporary Sociology, 2010. The book focuses on the law side of animal abuse. It talks about laws for animal abuse and how they are taken into action. The purpose of this book is to inform people about the laws and consequesnces of animal abuse. This book is relevant because it has all of the rules and regulations of animal abuse which goes along with my topic. After reading this, not only do I know about animal abuse, but now I know all of the consequesces and differenct laws.

Sources for Animal Abuse Part 1

Gauldin, Cliff. "Dairy Industry Insider." Dairy Awaits Outcome After Undercover Video (2010): 14. The purpose of this article is to inform readers about animal abuse in dairies farms. This article talks about a video that was released. The video shows a man striking a cow in the head with a wrench. The video is still under investigation. Gauldin's article about the dairy supports my assumption that although dogs and cats are the most common to be abused, there are other animals that are victims too.