Animal Rights vs Animal Welfare Apollo FFA Objectives
Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare Apollo FFA
Objectives: ®Define terms associated with animal rights. ®Compare “animal rights” & “animal welfare” ®Identify important people in the animal rights movement.
Objectives (cont. ): ®Discuss acts of legislation associated with animal welfare. ®Compare the issues concerning animal rights and animal welfare.
Define the following terms: ®Confinement Systems ®Factory Farming ®Humanize ®Intensive Operations
Define the following terms (cont. ) ®Specieism ®Unethical ®Vivisection
Compare “Animal Rights” & “Animal Welfare” ® Animal Welfare is the position that animals should be treated humanely. This includes proper housing, nutrition, disease prevention & treatment, responsible care, handling & humane euthanasia or slaughter.
“Animal Welfare” (cont. ) ®Animal welfare people believe that animals can be used for human purposes, but that they should be treated so that discomfort is kept to a minimum.
“Animal Rights” ®Animal rights is the position that animals should not be exploited. Animal rights people believe that animals should not be used for food, clothing, entertainment, medical research, or product testing.
“Animal Rights” (cont. ) ®This also includes the use of animals in rodeos, zoos, circuses, & even as pets. They believe it is ethically, morally, & inherently wrong to use animals for humane purposes under any condition.
Animal Rights (cont) ® Many are against vivisection and believe that living animals should not be used for surgical operations and experiments in which the structure and function of organ are studied. ® Many are also against factory farming, where chickens or any other animals are kept in cages.
Identify Important People: ®Ruth Harrison - published a book in 1964 entitled Animal Machines: The New Factory Farming Industry.
Ruth Harrison (cont. ) ®The main emphasis of the book centered on 2 areas: the use of antibiotics, hormones & additives in animal feeds & modern factory farming.
Important People (cont. ) ®Peter Singer – published Animal Liberation in the latter 1970’s. He is considered the founder of the modern animal rights movement.
Peter Singer (cont. ) ®His publication condemned the use of animals produced for food & their use in research.
Acts of Legislation & Organizations Concerned with Animal Welfare ®The 1 st anti-cruelty law was passed by the New York Legislature in 1828. ®In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in New York.
ASPCA continued: ®This organization was formed to look after the welfare of disabled horses & mules and save them from abandonment. This was America’s 1 st humane society & was founded by Henry Bergh.
Acts/Organizations (cont. ) ®In 1906, the Animal Transportation Act was passed to protect animals traveling long distances by rail. Also, it was passed to provide humane care & treatment of animals destined for slaughter.
Acts/Organizations (cont. ) ®In 1958, the Humane Slaughter Act was passed. This act also included the humane handling of animals prior to and during slaughter.
Acts/Organizations (cont. ) ®In 1966, Congress enacted Public Law 89 -544, known as the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
Public Law 89 -544 (cont. ) ®This law regulated dealers who handled dogs & cats, as well as laboratories that use dogs, cats, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits & primates in research.
Acts/Organizations (cont. ) ®The Horse Protection Act protects & regulates the horse show business.
The Animal Enterprise Protection Act ® This law was put into place to protect farms, zoos, aquariums, circuses, rodeos, fairs, auctions, packing plants and commercial or academic enterprises that use animals for food or fiber production, agriculture research and/or testing.
Ecoterrorism ® Even with the passage of the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, many crimes are still reported ® Many of these crimes are being committed under the guise of “saving nature”
Specieism ® This is when animal rights activists believe that any use of animals by humans reflects a bias that humans are superior to animals. ® They believe this because animals have nervous systems and feel pain, it is wrong to use them for food or experimentation
Humanize ® Animal activists contend that humans are supposed to care for and protect animals and not exploit them. ® To believe that animals have the same rights as humans, is to Humanize animals.
® Intensive operations – is when farmers try to increase their output through better breeding, feeding, and management ® Confinement systems – farming operations where animals are confined to cages or pens in partially enclosed or totally enclosed buildings.
Unethical ® Animal rights activists believe that animal experimentation is unethical (no ethics or morals) and not necessary ® Animal rights activists believe that there alternatives to animal experimentation and that the research that is done on animals is misleading!
Writing Assignment… ®Should animals be used for food? Why or why not? ®Should animals be used in experiments? ®Should animals be hunted for food/sport? ®Should animals be kept as pet?
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