Animal Welfare Issues

The Animal Protection Movement also underwent the Bureaucratic stage, which is the third stage of development of social movements in sociology. The bureaucratization stage of social movements is the formalization stage that is characterized by high level of organization as swell as coalitions. As such, this makes the social movement a powerful political force. As explained in the book, Thinking Sociology, this is the stage that is symbolized by a myriad of social movements dedicated to animal rights show that this particular concern will not go away (Carl, et al., 2011). In this stage of the Animal Protection Movement, there was significant media visibility, especially in the 1980s. In addition to that vigorous competition among the organizations in this juncture symbolize high level of efficiency in the movement. Strategic thinking by animal advocates was also adopted as an approach to enable justice-based movements that influenced drastic victories for the movement in that decade. Nevertheless, this stage of the Animal Welfare Movements was marked by extensive changes in organizations and the growth of active supporter base for the movement.

Animals are much more complex and innovative that should be given more credit than it should be. Now learned about the animal feelings exist, human could be too cruel in using their survivor coat, fur, for expensive souvenirs or fashion runway. The Born Free USA organization expounds in 50 million violently killed animals for fashion every year. Fur is believed to get from meat production, but ¨fur comes from animals who are factory-farmed or trapped purely for fashion.¨ Animal furs are obtained through gassing, electrocution, or neck breaking in traps. Imagined a full house of fully coated species trap in a cramp factory house, the animal of intelligence are thought to be under humane treatment, but the fashion factories say differently. Rifkin support of animal is simply a moral principle that every human should have instead of thinking as a superior intelligent

Introduction, animals that are being tested safety of their products that’s been a subject of an intense debate for over 10 years. While, a lot of people that alleged animals, the remained animals are being subjugated by the research cosmetics companies all over the country/all over the world. Even though, the scientists frequently profit from animal research, I don’t think all the suffering, the pain, and the animals dying are worth just trying find out the human benefits from the products.

Deer, elk skin, pig skin, lambs, horses, goats, and the famous alligators and crocodiles are just a few of the animals used for these products. Although, the animals are not alive when they are skinned down still does not make it okay. The animals are put to sleep in order for them to do this. Also, it probably wouldn’t work if they were alive because the animals would try to run. Believe it or not, cats and dogs are used for their skin in Asia for products that are sold to the United States (Is It True That Some). The clothing company Gucci announced they would stop selling fur products in 2018. This is huge news. All fur and leather products coming from animals fur and/or skin should be banned worldwide.

The controversial issue of animal testing isn’t a top priority for most Americans, but it is for the animal rights activist that have established brand boycotts and loyalty. Animal testing has been around for decades; however, most Americans do not know if their household cleans or beauty products are tested on animals. Companies like Fabreze, Lysol, and even Comet are still tested on animals as of 2017 but have a standing consumer boycott by animal rights activist. “A study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics (February 2015) found that from 1997 to 2012, the total number of laboratory animals increased by 73%, but due to inadequacies in recordkeeping on the use of animals in experimentation, the number may be even higher (“Animals,”

One major issue that is encountered around the United States and the world is the bitter issue of animal rights violations. Some violations include ignoring the right of hunger and thirst, freedom from pain and discomfort and freedom to express normal behavior. In addition, people and organizations need to recognize and prevent abuse and neglect of animals. Zoo’s force animals to live in artificial life. This focusing more on the main aspect of Animal Abuse in captivity concerning the conservation, attitude and post zoo on top of animal breeding in confinement.

There’s been a significant amount of legislation passed into law based on honoring crime victims in Tennessee. Some of these include the examples I listed above, which include Amelia’s Law, the Kelsey Smith Act, and Erin’s Law. There are many more to include the Channon Christian and Chris Newsom Acts, Victim’s Rights Photo Act, Mabry Kate Webb Act, and Dustin’s law, even though this particular legislation has been delayed being passed into law.

To finally decide if fur is morally ethical it is necessary to look deeper into the process of creating the pelts. Fur farming is the easiest and most popular way to “produce” the fur skins, which are later used to create garments, trims and accessories in fashion. The main and most important furbearers kept on farms are minks and foxes. According to Linzey “around 50 million mink (Mustela vison) and 7 million foxes (mostly Arctic fox, Alopex lagopus) are bred each year to meet the world demand for their skins” (2009: 97). When hearing the term “fur farm” most of the people would imagine a warm and friendly environment where animals are kept healthy, well fed and happy, but the reality of it seems to be different. The facilities at fur farms reminding more of a prison cells. For their entire lives the animals are kept in small, wired cages which are preventing them from doing any of their natural activities such as making nests, running or swimming. Furthermore, living in a small cage in such conditions causes many of the animals to go insane. Their frustration due to anxiety and the inability to meet their basic requirements often leads to self-harming by for instance biting their own skin, tail or feet, and in some cases even cannibalizing their own cage-mates. Studies show that majority of these animals develop behavioural

When it comes to big universities, most are big football schools. With football comes mascots, which is something the schools can hold very dear to their heart as mascots come with much pride and tradition. Some schools will have the average mascot you’re used to seeing in high school, a person dressed up in a costume that’s designed to look like a tiger, eagle, bear, etc. However, at many universities the use of live animal mascots is taking place. While some view this as exploitation of the animals, others see the royal treatment these animals get and carry a different opinion.

The problem is that animal cruelty is still happening and has not been stopped or even slowed down, “for example a group called Mercy for Animals filmed workers at Bettencourt Dairies punching and kicking cows in the face, according to “Exposing animal cruelty is not a crime,”(CNN). Animal cruelty is a problem because it is hurting pets and or animals everyday. Animal cruelty is

From Erasistratus of Alexandria to Galen, who is known as the creator of experimental physiology, animals have been test subjects in experiments for more than two thousand years (Day 35). Every year in the world as many as twenty-two million animals are used for scientific or medical purposes (Day 10). A variety of animals are experimented on, including rats, mice, rabbits, dogs, cats, and primates (Day 10). Those against animal research believe the tests are pointless (Day 10). They presume if the experiments were effective, cancer and other diseases would be cured (Day 11). The ethicality of testing is also debated. Today, multiple animal rights activist groups exist (Day 11). One of the most immense groups, People for the

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, is the first American-based organization for animal rights that was formed in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco. PETA is one of the most extreme, optimistic, social groups in America that will do anything to catch the person’s eye. Although people may not know much about the PETA organization, they should know the truth about it because they don’t believe animals have rights, they lie in their advertisements, and edit undercover videos to make situations look worse than they are.

A consumer could be more inclined to purchase/use a product if they can believe that their product lived a full and happy life. The same criteria can be said for a prospective pet, an owner would want an all-around healthy companion that can display a full range of emotion during the course of its life. Welfare can certainly be relative when you take into account the definition in context. I’m going to pose an argument that for instance an organically raised, grass fed cow can claim a higher quality welfare than a “stock” cow; one that has been raised in a warehouse, outside of a “natural” frame of reference (conditions the animal could exist in with minimal human intervention). I’ll even go so far as to say the physical presence of the sun may be a vital component in welfare. It has been documented that lack of sun exposure can lead to vitamin D, and calcium deficiency, various diseases because of that and even depression.[5] The definition of welfare can be measured by the accumulation of positive and negative experiences. Objectively weighing the satisfaction of every need (and possibly want) of the animal in question versus; illnesses, pain, abnormal behavior, and chronic stress, etc. Through these objective measures, an animal’s level of wellbeing can be properly gauged. [3] This makes it fairly easy to measure welfare since each of these events or categories probably has

It is suggested that pitbull owners feed their pets the foods that have what the breed requires in nutritional value. The dog food should contain nutrient sources that are similar to that found in their native lands that their ancestors ate. The requirements for a pitbull are a balance of protein, carbohydrates, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. Many dogs are taken to the vet because of nutritional related problems. If the dog is not getting the proper nutrients that their diet requires they can suffer from dry/itchy/flaky skin, hot spots, yeast infections in the ears, or thyroid-liver-kidney problems. The best diet for the pitbull is one that the owner makes fresh, using quality ingredients, without preservatives.

As of 2018, each family has to produce one child to scientific research with all rights given up for researchers to imprison the child for the duration of its life until death, to improve Maybelline’s foundation line. This theoretical idea would be appalling, unethical and horrific. The thought of torturing a human for its entire life to test cosmetic products is unthinkable and most would laugh at this unrealistic idea. I do not understand how researchers advocate that animals are like us and therefore this enables brands to ensure safety of product before human use from testing them first on animals. However when asked why animals are treated in such cruel ways with no consideration to the excruciating pain caused the answer is because animals are not like us. So which is it? Animals are like us or are they not. Saying animals do not have feelings like humans is the greatest statement of ignorance shown by many individuals ignoring this cruelty. The love that animals show humans is like no other and we should respect these beautiful creatures.