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Clyde Beatty kneels with a whip and chair, facing a roaring lion standing on a platform, with other lions seated on stools in a circus ring. Protesters outside Catalonia's Parliament in Barcelona hold signs reading stop animal cruelty and stop, with images of bulls, demonstrating against bullfighting.
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Cruelty to animals

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Animal cruelty is the willful or wanton infliction of pain, suffering, or death upon animals or the intentional or malicious neglect of animals by human beings. Intensive and widespread cruelty to animals has been attributed to the operation of animal farms, or “factory farms,” in which animals are typically confined in small warehouses or tiny stalls and fed specialized diets to speed their weight gain. Another form of animal cruelty, as recognized in many countries,...

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