Every year many people hope things will be better for the animals but an improvement in the welfare of the different animal nations seldom occurs.

The problem seems to be increasing human population growth and continued meat eating habits as well as destruction of the environment by humans.

Lack of compassion towards animals by humans continues and there is a false
sense of compassion to animals prevailing in countries with supposedly modern animal welfare laws.

People in Western countries like Australia often criticise other countries about their cruelty to animals yet cruelty to animals in Australia is common.

Australia has animal welfare laws and fines for cruelty to animals yet cruelty to animals is legalised in Australia in some of the following ways:-

• Battery hen farming (hens kept in small cages in dark stinking sheds)
  
  
• Rodeos (Animals tormented and hurt by humans using tight straps and roping them and dragging them to the ground for fun - animals suffer stress, fractures and internal injuries).
  
  
• Circuses - animals caged and moved across continents and forced to entertain humans.
  
  
• Meat eating - depriving animals of their lives and killing them barbarically
  with a method using captive bolt pistols and throat cutting (some animals try to escape but they can't and some animals are processed alive).
  
  
• Meat eating - baby animals and pregnant animals sent to slaughter (new born animals left to die or trampled to death on the trucks - "What is your problem" says the truck driver, "They're all going to die anyway.")
  
  
• Killing native animals for their flesh (possums dragged from the bush and
  left caged for days - they don't even stun them properly - poor little possums processed alive).
  
  
• Killing native animals by removing their habitat to make more grazing land
  or suburban sprawl
  

• Milk production - calves are killed so people can drink the milk meant for
  the calves
  
  
• Pet production - animals are used as breeding machines and sold in pet
  shops.
  
  
• Fishing - humans show off the biggest fish they managed to kill all in the
  name of recreation
  
  
• Boiling crayfish and prawns alive -a barbaric and widespread practise
  ignoring the fact that crayfish and crustaceans have central nervous systems and feel pain
  
  
• Animal experimentation - cruel and barbaric use of animals in medical
  research and cosmetic testing
  
  
• Tail docking of dogs - puppies scream as their tails are cut off ;people
  think dogs look nicer with no tails.
  
  
• Xenotransplantation research - killing animals for their organs .
  
  
• Killing of thousands of unwanted pet animals (bodies buried at the tip or
  burned/incinerated by welfarists)
  
  
• Shooting and poisoning of foreign introduced animals and unwanted native
  animals
  
  
• Zoos - Imprisonment of animals in Zoos and false claims that captive
  breeding will return species to the wild (no-one seems to realise "the wild" is being destroyed and pillaged by humans - there will be no safe place to return such animals to except for reserves and sanctuaries where life will not be the same for many animals.)
  
  
• Baiting and killing of thousands of introduced wild animals so a handful of
  native animals may be returned to the bush that bears little resemblance to the bush of a hundred years ago.
  
  
• Horse racing and the killing of horses unsuitable for the racing industry
  
  
• Intensive farming of meat animals - pigs and other animals kept in concrete
  and tin sheds so they never live a natural life - hidden cruelty.
  
• Live sheep, cattle and animal trade - animals transported to other countries           on ships in appalling conditions to face ritual slaughter after weeks at sea.