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Title: Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare


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Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare
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Main Idea
  • What is the difference between animal rights and
    animal welfare?

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Animal Rights
  • To end all human "exploitation" of animals -this
    includes, but is not limited to, raising and
    slaughtering of livestock for human oranimal
    consumption, eating meat, hunting, using animals
    for any medical or veterinary research, zoos
    (regardless of how wellmanaged), circuses,
    rodeos, horseshows, dogshows, animals performing
    in TV commercials, shows or movies
    (regardless of how well treated any of the above
    are), guide-dogs for the blind, police dogs,
    search rescue dogs, and the practice of owning
    pets.
  • Organizations PETA (People For The
    Ethical       Treatment Of Animals) 

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Animal Welfare
  • To prevent suffering and cruelty to animals.  And
    to provide care and good homes for pets in need. 
    This often includes, but is not limited to, the
    funding and running of animal shelters (to
    provide a sanctuary for abandoned, abused,
    homeless, or unwanted pets, and to place them in
    good homes where possible, provide painless
    euthanasia for those that cannot be adopted, and
    to educate the public about the need for
    spaying/neutering their pets to prevent more
    surplus animals ending up in shelters),
    enforcement of anti-cruelty statutes (where their
    authority permits),nitiating, lobbying for, and
    monitoring enforcement of legislation to ensure
    more humane standards of care for livestock,
    laboratory animals, performing animals, and pets
  • ASPCA (American Society For The        
    Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals)
  • MSPCA (MA Society For The Prevention          Of
    Cruelty To Animals)
  • NAIA (The National Animal Interest Alliance)
    http//www.naiaonline.org/aboutus.htm(at present
    there is a controversy regarding 2 of the 20
    persons on their board of directors
    who represent the "pet industry."  Upon review
    of the facts, I cautiously endorse NAIA.  To
    decide for yourself, please click on link below)
    http//www.angelfire.com/vt2/rutland/NAIAcontrover
    sy.html
  • AHA (American Humane Association)

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  • Farm animal treatment is a public concern,
    however,
  • Fewer Americans have lived on a farm
  • Most people dont know what farm animals are like
  • Farm animals are not pets
  • Farm animals are not characters in the books and
    movies we see

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Agriculture is changing too
  • Confining animals to crates or pens is more
    common but in more humane ways
  • Hogs used to be stacked on top of one anotherthe
    top hog would be fed quality grains while the
    hogs below would feast of the breakdown of the
    above animals

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  • cat with implanted electrodes. Cats are popular
    subjects of neurophysiology experiments because
    vivisectors think that their brain has
    similarities with the human brain.  

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Some People ask..
  • Is confinement more efficient use of resources or
    is it cruel and stressful?
  • Should scientist be tinkering with animals or are
    they simply improving them?
  • Should these and other practices be regulated by
    law?

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  • The American Veterinary Medical Association
    Policy on Animal Welfare and Animal Rights
    describes animal welfare as
  • "... a human responsibility that encompasses all
    aspects of animal well-being, including proper
    housing, management, nutrition, disease
    prevention and treatment, responsible care,
    humane handling, and, when necessary, humane
    euthanasia."

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Practical arguments
  • Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines
    against diseases like rabies, polio, measles,
    mumps, rubella and TB.
  • Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin and cancer
    treatments rely on animal tests. Other testing
    methods aren't advanced enough.
  • Operations on animals helped to develop organ
    transplant and open-heart surgery techniques
  • http//news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/teachers/citizen
    ship_11_14/subject_areas/human_rights/newsid_34300
    00/3430169.stm

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Ethical Arguments
  • Human life has greater intrinsic value than
    animal life.
  • Legislation protects all lab animals from cruelty
    or mistreatment.
  • Millions of animals are killed for food every
    year - if anything, medical research is a more
    worthy death.
  • Few animals feel any pain as they are killed
    before they have the chance to suffer.

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From the lab at Oxford University
  • Advanced made from the scientific research
    conducted at Oxford include the discovery of
    penicillin, treatments for hemophilia and
    childhood leukemia, and the development and
    trials of vaccines for meningitis in children.
    Oxford has helped contribute to our understanding
    of heart disease, cancer, bird flu, infectious
    diseases and numerous other illnesses. And if we
    are able to continue our research with animals,
    we can help find cures for these illnesses.

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Animal Welfare
  • Encourages proper care
  • Humane treatment
  • Reduce stress to maintain profits
  • Humans have more rights than animals

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Animal Rights
  • Goes beyond welfare
  • Animals have rights equal to humans
  • Animals should not be used for food, clothing,
    research, etc

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Other topics of Discussion
  • Rodeos
  • Hunting
  • http//sun.menloschool.org/sportman/ethics/projec
    t/topics/wessler/

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