What area of the world does animal abuse usually happen?

Answer 1

Animal abuse happens all over the world, in homes, on farms, in the wilderness, in laboratories and in circuses, zoos, and other entertainment venues.

Some people point to Asia as having a particularly high rate of animal abuse. In South Korea, a $2 billion dollar-a-year industry kills approximately 2.5 million dogs a year for meat, and about 100,000 cats, for soup or “health tonics.†At the end of their short, miserable lives, people kill dogs with high-voltage electrocution. Those not dying immediately are hanged, beaten to death, and frequently have their throats slashed. They are killed within sight of other dogs waiting to die, thrown into a tub of boiling water, then into a rotating drum that removes their fur, and finally blowtorched, often while still alive. Cats are bludgeoned and thrown into boiling water while conscious. Many have their legs broken so they can’t escape, and are skinned alive. Unlike dogs, cats are not bred and held captive for their meat, but are stolen, surrendered, or picked up as strays. Most horrible of all is the myth, fueled solely by profit, that the more suffering endured during slaughter, the more tender the meat and more potent the so-called medicinal properties.

In China, too, cats and dogs are skinned and boiled alive after being kept in appalling conditions and treated cruelly. In addition, 36 different species of animal are used in traditional Chinese medicines, including endangered tigers, rhinos, and sea horses. During 2014, in South Africa alone a staggering 1,215 rhinos were killed by poachers. That’s one every eight hours. On bile farms across Asia, 14,000 black bears spend their whole lives living in tiny 'crush' cages, hardly able to move. They are “milked†for bile with tubes being forced in to open wounds in their abdomens and gall bladders, (or catheters are permanently left in the wounds), to drain their bile out. This is a severely painful process the bears have to endure on a daily basis and they can die in agony due to infection as a result.

An estimated 100,000 African elephants were illegally killed between 2010 and 2012 elephants are brutally killed for their tusks because the Asian market pays well for ivory.

A number of festivals involve animal cruelty, as do other regular traditional and cultural events all over the world, such as the annual Gadhimai Festival in Nepal, during which around 15000-20000 animals, including buffaloes, goats, chickens, pigeons, and rabbits are slaughtered in religious sacrifice while crowds watch and cheer.