Animal cruelty has been around for a long time and still continues to occur. It must stop because animals are living beings that can experience pain and suffering just like we humans do. The animals will be used for safety testing such as cosmetics, food and household use. Animals are slaughtered to provide us with food and animals in zoos are not treated with care. The history of animal abuse begins with fighting dogs for sport. It all began in the 12th century, after the war. The English began exporting them for use in pit fighting against larger animals such as wild boars and bulls. It's been happening for centuries. Cockfighting is a fight between two roosters. It happened in the rural South and in areas with immigrant populations. In some cases these actions are performed on those animals to prevent them from raising their families, poking around in the ground, building nests, or doing whatever Mother Nature has to provide them. Factory farming produces a product from living machines, confined to one place, fed but rarely cared for. Living in stress and often in pain, boredom and incredible filth. What does the industry gain from animal torture? Profit. To conclude, animals are not the only ones who suffer: their abusive practices that maximize farm profits at the expense of our environment, our communities, animal welfare, human health and our environment are being harmed by farming intensive. The animals are fed antibiotics to prevent them from dying so they can produce more meat, to grow where their legs cannot support their weight or they become too large. However, bacteria are also contained in antibiotics and roam around the dirty habitat, which actually kills them slowly. There are many ways to end animal cruelty, but there aren't many people protesting against them. We can vote against factory farming, we shouldn't choose to buy food from companies that don't care about animal rights and protest against factory farming.