Animal cruelty has been prevalent since ancient Roman times. They would bring wild animals from throughout their far-reaching empire and put them in an area where they would fight to death, to the great amusement of huge crowds of Roman citizens. A popular belief of the time was farm animals should be treated with the same consideration as farm tools. (Owen 1993) Unfortunately, it appears that many researchers share that belief. Approximately 17 to 22 million animals are …showed first 75 words of 1836 total…

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