The Issue Of Animal Cruelty In George Orwell's Animal Farm

According to One Green Planet,“Ninety-nine percent of U.S. farm animals never get to express natural behavior” (Geer). Real farms are very similar to the symbolic book Animal Farm. George Orwell's Animal Farm is about an old pig by the name of Old Major, motivating the animals to revolt against their owner, Mr. Jones, because of his neglect towards the animals’ care and wellbeing. Just as the animals were mistreated in Animal Farm, there are still many animals treated inhumanely on farms, revealing how imminent the issue of animal cruelty remains in the world today.
Similar to Animal Farm, where no one acknowledged the conditions the animals had to live in, farm animals today are neglected and used for work or slaughtering. It seems that “states with low rankings may have passive flaws,...not keeping up with changing attitudes toward companion animals, livestock, and wildlife, but other prohibit actions that could help animals” (Thornton). Since some states don’t have strict animal cruelty enforcements, instead of cruelty

“All animals are equal but some are more equal than others” shows that we as humans proclaim to give equality to all, but really the only animals that have power at all are the humans, a small category of people, as in Animal Farm (Orwell 118). Although there are many states that do provide animals with cruelty laws, not all do. According to this article, “states with low rankings often label cruelty, neglect and abandonment as misdemeanors, not felonies” (Thornton). In many places, serious issues like this have lacked in law enforcement authority since animal cruelty isn’t considered as important as other crimes even though it is. More people should focus on the fact that the living conditions of all farm animals do have to be taken notice of because if they aren’t, many animals end up going through cruelty they don’t