Humane treatment of animals

Many people associate animal rights with atrocity images of animals. In a certain sense there is no logical reason for this, since it is animal abusers who inflict cruelty to animals, not animal rightists. However, there is a simple psychological reason for this association: animal rights groups continually display atrocity images to protest how animals are commonly mistreated. Yet animal rights leads to animal liberation. The logical outcome of animal emancipation? The realities and hence images of liberated animals. In keeping with this theme, I wish to highlight some portraits of liberated animals to start off, to make it clear what the ends of animal rights really are--animals as ends in themselves. However, mostly animals are treated under conditions of extreme oppression, and it would not be fair to neglect them either in our minds or concrete practices. Hence the purpose of "Facing the Facts of Animal Treatment." There appears nothing wrong in the above images. Yet animal rightists need to defend their practices in this world. Keep in mind that the images and descriptions below are not associated with animal rights so much as contempt for animal rights. Also, although they might be upsetting, this upset pales in comparison to the severe harm animals must endure at human hands, usually for trifling benefits.