![]() The simplest case is when we give an animal medical treatment. We need to see if harming the animal was justified (and therefore legal) or was unjustified, and it is abuse. The point that seems extremely complicated in the prohibition of abuse is the question of justification. ![]() But what difference does it make to the animal if whoever hurt it did so out of sadism or out of indifference? Therefore, harming an animal that was not done out of sadism is also abuse – if it was not justified. Most people who harm animals do not do so out of cruelty or hatred towards animals-sometimes they are people who love animals in other contexts, or care about the animals that depend on them, but they do not care enough. Most animal injuries are done to benefit from them or out of indifference to their needs. The court ruled that it is not necessary for the perpetrator to act out of sadism, so that we would define his actions as abuse. The harming could be by killing an animal. The harming can be by way of causing physical or mental suffering – and not necessarily particularly acute suffering. The Supreme Court has ruled that abuse is any unjustified harming to animals. Those who abused animals will be sentenced to up to three years in prison and a high fine – and in some cases up to four years in prison. The main prohibition in the Animal Welfare Act is the prohibition of abuse. The main law protecting animals is the Animal Welfare Act of 1994. In the legal department of Let the Animals Live, we are constantly working to expand the legal protection of animals, and to enforce the protection that already exists. Some of these acts of cruelty have not yet been banned. Some of these acts of cruelty are against the law, which is not properly enforced. Even when adopted as part of the family, they often suffer from neglect, and their needs are the last to be considered. ![]() In the wild, their homes are destroyed in favor of establishing cities and roads. ![]() On the streets they’re a target for killing. In the animal food industries and in laboratories, animals are treated as machines and research test tubes, and depriving them of almost every basic need. Animals in Israel have rights, which are enshrined in a variety of laws and in the rulings of the courts. ![]()
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