What is Animal Welfare
an animal’s quality of life including physical and social experiences.
What is animal welfare?
internationally accepted standards of care that affirm every living being's right to humane treatment and developed by Britain's Farm Animal Welfare Council
What are the Five Freedoms?
All foods involving animals are made ethically (true/false)
false
___ focus on animals being treated humanely.
What does animal welfare focus on?
measured in 5 domains
Animal welfare is measured by how many domains?
President LBJ signed this act into place in 1966.
What is the Animal Welfare Act?
belief that all other animal species are inferior to humans
What is Speciesism?
____ focus on the idea that animals should never be used by humans in any way. (Fill in the blank)
What do animal rights focus on the idea of?
1) Animal Testing
2) Overpopulation
3) Abandoned Pets
The Five Freedoms are...
1) Freedom from ____ and thirst
2) Freedom from ____
3) Freedom from pain, injury, and ____
4) Freedom to express normal and natural ____
5) Freedom from ____ and distress
1) hunger
2) discomfort
3) disease
4) behavior
5) fear
To help promote this, you can
1) Donating to shelters/rescue groups
2) Purchasing Cruelty-Free Products
3) Becoming an advocate for animal welfare,
4) Fundraising
5) Volunteering at Shelters/Rescues
6) Attending Animal Welfare Events
How can you promote animal welfare?
the individual that started the animal rights momentum
Who is Peter Singer?
The domains are nutrition, health, mental state, environment, and behavior.
What are the five domains of animal welfare?
It is the only federal law that regulates the treatment of animals in settings such as education and research.
What is the animal welfare act?
a youth-led revolt against human supremacy
What is PETA's SOS?
Food, Clothing, Entertainment, Experimentation, and Labor are aspects of this
What are some aspects of animal rights?
They are the Humane Society of the United States, and they work to promote human-animal bonds and rescue and protect animals in need.
What is the largest animal protection agency in the US and what do they do?
Austria has a higher score than the US, India, and South Africa in terms of animal welfare standards from this index.
What is the Animal Protection Index?
Students Opposing Speciesism
What does PETA's SOS stand for?
Scenario: A mother polar bear lived at a zoo and gave birth to a cub. She then died from complications from that birth and the cub was left motherless.
(What would an animal welfare activist do? What would an animal rights activist do?)
An animal welfare activist would suggest that a zoo or rescue raise the cubs and ensure they have everything to help the cubs survive.
An animal rights activist would argue that captivity is inhumane and that the cubs should be released into the wild.