This is the failure to provide basic needs such as food, water, shelter, and veterinary care, leading to suffering and sometimes death. Abandonment involves leaving animals to fend for themselves in environments they cannot survive.

Impact: Neglected and abandoned animals often suffer from malnutrition, disease, and severe stress, affecting their well-being and survival.

Intentional infliction of harm, including beating, burning, or mutilating animals. This can be the result of anger, frustration, or a disturbing desire to exert control.

Impact: Physical abuse not only causes immediate pain and injury but can also lead to long-term psychological trauma and behavioral issues in animals.

Using animals for entertainment purposes in circuses, zoos, races, and fights. These practices often involve cruel training methods, confinement, and denial of natural behaviors.

Impact: Animals exploited for entertainment can suffer from physical injuries, psychological stress, and shortened lifespans due to the unnatural and often abusive conditions they endure.

Intensive farming practices where animals are raised in confined spaces to maximize production. This includes battery cages for hens, gestation crates for pigs, and overcrowded feedlots for cattle.

Impact: These practices cause immense suffering due to confinement, inability to perform natural behaviors, and often painful procedures without anesthesia, such as beak trimming or castration.

The capture and sale of wild animals for pets, medicine, and luxury items. Poaching involves illegally killing animals for parts such as tusks, horns, or skins.

Impact: Beyond the immediate suffering and death, the wildlife trade and poaching contribute to the decline of species populations, disrupting ecosystems and leading to potential extinction.

The use of animals in research to test cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. These tests can involve exposure to harmful substances, causing pain, suffering, and death.

Impact: Animals in laboratories suffer not only from the experiments themselves but also from the stress of confinement, isolation, and the lack of enrichment, leading to psychological distress.