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Thinking Intelligently About Animal Agriculture

Thinking Intelligently About Animal Agriculture. What is the difference between animal rights and animal welfare?. Bell Work. With a partner discuss: “ Do you think animal rights and animal welfare are different? Why or why not? ”. What do you think?. Share your responses from bell work.

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Thinking Intelligently About Animal Agriculture

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  1. Thinking Intelligently About Animal Agriculture What is the difference between animal rights and animal welfare?

  2. Bell Work • With a partner discuss: “Do you think animal rights and animal welfare are different? Why or why not?”

  3. What do you think? • Share your responses from bell work. • Yes, there is a difference. • So how do you define animal rights and animal welfare?

  4. And now, from the experts… • Animal rights, as defined by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (largest animal rights organization in the world) • “People who support animal rights believe that animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other purpose and that animals deserve consideration of their best interests regardless… regardless of whether any human cares about them at all.”

  5. On the flipside • The American Veterinary Medical Association (on the website of the Animal Welfare Council) says: • “Animal Welfare is a human responsibility that encompasses all aspects of animal well-being, including proper housing, management, disease prevention and treatment, responsible care, humane handling, and, when necessary, humane euthanasia.”

  6. So what does this mean? • Which is more practical for livestock producers to strive for, animal rights or animal welfare?

  7. Animal welfare is a necessity! Animal ABUSE occurs when welfare does not (animal fighting/betting, neglect, starvation, bestiality, etc.)

  8. Livestock animal treatment is a public concern, however, • Fewer Americans have lived on a farm • Most people don’t know what farm animals are like • Farm animals are not pets • Farm animals are not characters in the books and movies we see • Misconceptions allow people to think livestock, pets and wildlife should be treated the same…. Should they? – DISCUSS

  9. What about Experimentation? • Cat with implanted electrodes. Cats are popular subjects of neurophysiology experiments because vivisectors think that their brain has similarities with the human brain.   Cat still provided care, water, food, etc.

  10. What about Hunting ? • Should livestock have the same rights as humans? You would not kill another man should you kill deer?

  11. 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."

  12. What is euthanasia and why is it used?

  13. 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/citizenship_11_14/subject_areas/human_rights/newsid_3430000/3430169.stm

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

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

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

  18. Your Turn You will be researching animal rights and welfare more to write a paper using a balance of opinion based on properly cited research and evidence on if animals should have the same rights/welfare as humans or not and why. Consider how this may change when discussing livestock, wildlife and companion animals.

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