Animal Cruelty To Animals Act

CHAPTER 2

ANIMAL ABUSE IN EXPERIMENTS Using animals in research and to test the safety of products is a very huge issue for decades. People have different feelings for animals; many look upon animals as companions while others view animals as a means for advancing medical techniques or furthering experimental research. Individuals perceive animals, the fact remains that animals are being exploited by research facilities and cosmetics companies all across the country and all around the world. Although humans often benefit from successful animal research, the pain, the suffering, and the deaths of animals are not worth the possible human benefits. Animals' rights are violated when they are used in research. According to Tom Regan, a philosophy

According to the petition, a new bill, which would amend the Act, was drafted two years ago but is currently languishing in parliament. “The current Act, passed four decades ago, has not been updated and imposes only minimal fines for even the most heinous cases of cruelty. The fine for any violation of the Act, committed any number of times, is merely Rs. 60. This is hardly a deterrent to those who commit acts of cruelty to the animals”. In 1999, PETA had exposed India’s cruel underground leather and meat trade. The investigations by PETA revealed the unholy nexus between corrupt traders and officials for smuggling the animals across State borders at night, and those animals that collapse during the march have their tailbones fractured just to keep them

Firms which produce antibodies for making serums and vaccines by bleeding the horses use over-aged horses of the Army. Due to excessive administration of high doses of toxins (venoms, antigens), there have been several deaths of these horses in these firms and the State has failed (in its constitutional duty) to have compassion for living creatures. The state is not a breeder and under rules only a breeder can give away animals for such scientific experiments. So this is not only a violation of rules, but also the action is beyond the pale of imagination. The animal activists further argued that it was shockingly disturbing to find that the Army, after using the animals for 15 or more years, discards them like this. They can surely be allowed to graze in its many pastures. The animal activists in our country do not appreciate the use of animals in biological studies. They are equating cruelty to animals committed by corrupt leather and meat traders to animal experiments conducted for scientific investigations. Physiologists and pharmacologists had been in the bad books of animal activists as they were allegedly on of the users of pound dogs caught by the stray dogs. “Prevention of