Expert: Tina Volpe - 4/27/2009

Question
1. Are you for animal cruelty or against it?
2. Do you have experience with animal cruelty? If you do and you can please give me a brief example.
3. Would you try to change this issue? And how?
4. Does your family agree with animal cruelty?
5. Do you think that animals should be treated like humans?
6. Should animals be in caged?
7. Do you think that there should be stronger laws for animal cruelty if so how strong?
8. Do you think that there should be animal cloning and if so do you think they should be treated like the original animals?
9. How does animal cruelty help the economy and how it doesnt help the economy?
10. How does animal cruelty affect society and how it doesnt?
11. What could be some laws that people for animal cruelty might use to do animal cruelty?

Answer
1.  Against it of course.  Nothing should be treated inhumanely.
2.  Yes, I've rescued quite a few animals who were on the brink of death because of neglect.
3.  I try every day of my life to change cruelty to animals.
4.  Yes
5.  This is a difficult question - humans are animals, however, because we can communicate, it gives us the ability to ask for what we need.  Animals cannot communicate, other than groaning and screaming their distaste, which means that I believe they should be treated as living breathing creatures and should not be looked upon as inferior.  
6.  No, they should never be caged, in a perfect world, they would live as their maker intended -
7.  I think the laws protecting animals (not domesticated) are practically non-existent and that treating any thing cruelly is morally wrong.
8.  No, we should not clone animals.
9.  Cruelty helps nothing.  Animal agribusiness hurts the environment, and subsequently the economy.  
10.  Studies show that people who are or have been cruel to animals, end up being cruel to their wives, children and a large percentage become serial killers.
11.  Don't understand this question.  

Tina Volpe