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MoonRiver

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Mon May 7, 2018, 11:18 AM May 2018

10 Animals That Spend Their Entire Lives in a Space Smaller Than Your Bathtub




Imagine spending your entire life in your bathtub, and no matter how much you want to, you can’t get out.

You can barely move, let alone turn around. You are forced to live in your own feces. You never see the outside world — and after years of this miserable existence, you are killed.

It may sound sick, but this is the reality of life for billions of animals all over the world.

While some animals are offered legal protection from being abused and mistreated, others get none — instead spending almost every minute of their lives inside an area less than 1 x 2 meters.

By categorizing some animals as “necessary for medical research” or as “food animals,” they are born into a system where there is no hope of having any quality of life whatsoever.

The physical and mental effects of living a life of such confinement are unbearable, yet society turns a blind eye to the suffering of these animals — and companies continue to profit from this cruelty.


https://www.care2.com/causes/10-animals-that-spend-their-entire-lives-in-a-space-smaller-than-your-bathtub.html
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