DoggyLuva1128, It's not just animals that are treated badly.
Think of all the children who don't speak out for themselves and are sexually exploited, abused, beat, emotionally drained from verbal abuse, tossed out onto the streets. Sold in the sex trade industry.
Then you have some countries where little girl children are not "favored" and there are allowances for how many children you have. I watched a documentary where mothers were taking baby girls and leaving them in the woods to die.
It's not just animals. If we can't stop abuse and horrific cruelity to humans....it's pretty hard to stop abuse with animals.
One more thing people forget (in any Country) are little children who experiement with animals...killing them and torturing them. We have this happen quite often throughout North America, no one really talks about it that often. When I was a child I watched as the neighborhood boys cornered a porcupine or raccoon and slowly kill it. Or satinists or people who practice horrific rituals on animals.
We humans can be very cruel and for some it seems to bring about a sick sort of pleasure. Horrible.