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AN INCOMPLETE CATALOGUE

of forms of ill-usage of animals, occuring in connection with

Food. Slaughter of millions. Breeding for slaughter. Breeding for meat-bearing, involving degradation in intelligence and distortion in bodily form.

Clothing. Furs ; involving torture by trapping of vast majority, and breeding for killing of remainder. Feathers ; often obtained by suffering. Hand and foot wear ; the greater part supplied by bye-products of food, but some, e.g., reptile-skin shoes and garments, by killing, and sometimes
breeding, creatures which would otherwise go unmolested.

Industry. Employment under unsuitable conditions, e.g., horses and ponies in mines, sale of cast horses for work or butchery overseas,
overworking and over-loading, close and constant chaining of watch-dogs, use of cats as scarecrows.

Companionship. Destruction or abandonment of unwanted dogs and cats: Caging of wild birds. Cage-breeding.

Amusement. Hunting and shooting. Breeding for shooting. Extermination of "big game." Mis-use or wild animals for spectacular films. Menagerie, circus and performing animals generally.

Instruction. Public and private collections of caged animals.

Physiology. Animals used for experiments (vivisection).

Medicine. (As Physiology). Animals used in preparation of serums and vaccines. Test animals for drugs and poisons.

War. Animals used in campaigns. Animals used in "poison gas" experiments.

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