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Animal Welfare, Ethics in Animal Use & Animal Rights

Animal Welfare, Ethics in Animal Use & Animal Rights. Aida L T Rompis. Background of Animal Welfare. Keberhasilan manusia domestikasi hewan liar seperti: kuda, sapi, domba, kambing, kucing, anjing, burung, dll.

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Animal Welfare, Ethics in Animal Use & Animal Rights

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  1. Animal Welfare, Ethics in Animal Use & Animal Rights Aida L T Rompis

  2. Background of Animal Welfare • Keberhasilan manusia domestikasi hewan liar seperti: kuda, sapi, domba, kambing, kucing, anjing, burung, dll. • Masyarakat di Lembah Indus percaya bahwa mereka akan menjelma menjadi hewan setelah mati, karenanya hewan hidup harus dihargai dan diperlakukan dgn baik sebagaimana mereka memperlakukan sesama manusia • Nabi Ibrahim memerintahkan pengikutnya untuk mentaati peraturan pemotongan hewan berdasarkan pertimbangan agar hewan mati segera dan darah harus ke luar untuk memastikan faktor higienis pemotongan dan konsumsi daging hewan (dilarang mengkonsumsi darah karena darah mengandung banyak sumber penyakit

  3. The philosophy behind animal welfare & ethics ………….”pain”

  4. THE FIVE FREEDOMS OF ANIMAL WELFARE • Freedom from thirst, hunger and malnutrition • Freedom from discomfort due to environment • Freedom from pain, injury and disease • Freedom from fear and distress • Freedom to express its normal behaviour

  5. Indicators for assessing welfare: • Injuries, health status, nutritional status, signs of thermal stress (shivering, sweating, panting) • Physiological signs of stress (heart rate, level of stress hormone, immune system • Changes in normal behavioural

  6. Animal Welfare Organizations • Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), 1824, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA, 1840) • Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876 (England) • ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1866) • Laboratory Animal Welfare Act (USA, 1966) • Guide for Laboratory Animal Facilities and Care (1963, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1978) • Animal Welfare Act (USA, 1976) (cattle, goats, sheep, not chickens) • The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1996), translated to Indonesian (2002)

  7. Ethics in Animal Use • The ethical use of animals for scientific purposes and teaching • All uses of animals in research and teaching have to be assesses and approved by a committee (ACUC) • All uses of animals are subject to the basic philosophies of animal ethics, the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement)

  8. Animal Rights • Ethical code of minority groups opposed to any use of animals (in research, teaching, consumption) • Consists of reasonable to very active, vocal, violent groups • Animal right have had influence towards improvement of animal welfare

  9. Abolish all use of animlas/exploitation of animals (Tom Regan) • Reject all discrimination based on spesies, race, sex (Peter Singer) • Protest against organizations which continuous to support fox hunting, wild bird shooting, wild rabbit hunting • Cruelty to animals in the modern world (factory farming, laboratory animals)

  10. Animal welfare is about how animals cope with the situation they are in (Five freedom of animal welfare) • Animal Ethics are rules and principles governing humane treatment of animals (The 3R) • Animal Rights are set of belief of minority groups about how and why humans should/should not use animals for their own benefit • Welfare and Ethics are intimately linked, whereas animal rights are opposed and different from welfare and ethics • However, the animal rights movement has major contribution to the improvement in animal welfare

  11. All living organisms are created by God • Man has the highest intelligence of all organisms • Man is the keeper and responsible for all that lives on earth • So all living beings (all God’s creature) should be treated with respect

  12. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way its animal are treated” Mahatma Gandhi

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