Animal Welfare Research

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.

Regan, Tom. "Animal Rights, Human Wrongs." Forming a Critical Perspective. Boston, MA: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2010. 336-40. Print.

Peter Singer and Tom Regan are two important philosophers when it comes to securing the protection of non-human animals through gaining moral considerability. Both philosophers have the same end goal, equality for animals, but each philosopher takes a different path to get there. In this essay I will discuss both Singer’s and Regan’s methods that they feel are the best in accomplishing moral considerability. I will first begin with Singer’s utilitarian approach and then move on to discuss Regan’s rights approach. Once I have fully described both arguments I will then discuss how the approaches are similar and different. I will then argue that Regan has the stronger approach in securing animal moral considerability through his more realistic

The tension between animal rights and medical/cosmetic research is an extreme issue in today’s society. Every day millions of mice, rats, rabbits, primates, cats, dogs, and other animals are locked inside cold, barren cages in laboratories across the country. They languish in pain, ache with loneliness, and long to roam free and use their minds, but all they can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying, painful procedure that will be performed on them next. Animal Research is a very well known act and has been around for some time. Most of the advancements in the 20th century are because of animals. Many of the products we use each day from medicines to household products are tested generally on animals. Many people around the world think animal research is the right thing to do because of the benefits humans may receive from it. Humans often benefit from successful animal research, although, the pain, the suffering, and the deaths of animals are not worth the possible human benefits. Animals and people are alike in many ways; they feel, think, behave, and experience pain. Animal testing is by far the most heartless act anyone could preform; it is inhumane; there are other alternatives and results are not necessarily reliable.

While I only worked with the adoptable dogs and cats at the animal shelter, there were still risks. As long as the dogs and cats had no history of aggression, they were put up for adoption, and I was allowed to work with them unsupervised. However, just because an animal has not displayed aggression in the past does not mean that they will not in the future. Animals were brought into the animal shelter on a daily basis. When being introduced to a new environment and new people, stress for animal is unavoidable. Stress may manifest itself in fear and nervousness. Fear and nervousness may lead to aggression. Aggression is usually a form of self-defense for shelter animals. Fortunately, I never experienced a case of offensive aggression from an animal at the shelter.

In an effort to continually advance and progress on every front, society brings into question the ethics or lack thereof in every facet of life. Amongst these, the concept of animal rights repeatedly finds its way to the forefront. The dispute, which presents a disagreement on moral and ethical standings, is often headed by vegetarians and animal rights activist. Individuals much like Peter Singer, author of “All Animals are Equal”, provide conclusive, supporting arguments. Through Singer’s essay, from his book “Animal Liberation”, a valid argument covering all aspect of extending equality to all animals, not just humans, is established.

In Peter Singer’s piece “All Animals Are Equal”, he begins his argument by an in-depth consideration of notable rights movements, such as the Black Liberation and women’s rights movement, then segues into the justification for equal consideration of rights regarding animals, before finally exposing the immorality behind factory farming and animal cruelty. According to Singer, “the basic principle of equality…is equality of consideration; and equal consideration for different beings may lead to different treatment and different rights” (Singer 1974, 506). Based off proposed animals’ rights to equal consideration, Singer formats his main arguments against factory farming and the mistreatment of animals in general. These arguments stem from

I am probably the most passionately persistent person I know. Once I get an idea in my mind, I feel a strong obligation to act upon it immediately with full commitment. The day I finally convinced my mom to allow me to be a pet owner, I almost immediately went to the pet store and bought pet supplies for the animal I didn’t even have yet. That is similar to when I bought 25 painted lady caterpillars because the bees are dying, we need more pollinators, I can’t have a bee farm on my property, and butterflies seemed like my best option. I researched every question under the sun from their lifecycle to the plants they eat. Applying this research, I recreated the entire lifecycle on my own to produce more butterflies to release. Seeing the end results of all my hard work and investment was an eye-opening moment.

Ethics is a set of rules of conduct within a given group in society. the moral status of the animal has changed through the ages. Marie expects progress towards better ethical standards in animal agriculture in the future. Animal ethics is a critical element of the sustainability of the production of livestock. Ethics in animal production is a condition of the acceptability of the products, but also of the animal production sector as a whole. Ethics is a condition of acceptance in this

It is important to acknowledge animals, and their part in the moral community. Since animals are considered to be moral patients due to the fact they “lack rights or lack the cognitive powers needed to be a moral agent” (pg. 286). As human beings, and moral agents we “owe them duties of respect, which protect them against the current practices involved in factory farming” (pg.286).

The issue of raising domesticated animals for human advantage raises the issue of the relationship between people and creatures, as far as the status of creatures and commitments of individuals. Creature welfare is the perspective that creatures under human consideration ought to be dealt with so as to not endure pointlessly. For the most part, however, the creature welfare point of view depends on an understanding of investigative examination on cultivating practices. By differentiation, every living creature's common sense entitlement is the perspective that utilizing creatures for human advantage is, by its tendency, by and large abuse, paying little mind to the cultivating practices utilized. Every living creature's common sense entitlement activists would for the most part be veggie lover or lacto-vegetarian, while it is steady with the creature welfare viewpoint to eat meat, contingent upon generation

Regan, Tom and Singer, Peter, “All Animals Are Equal.” Animal Rights and Human Obligations. Eds. Tom Regan and Peter Singer. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1989, 148-162. Print.

This particular article is analyzing whether pets are really happy or are they been kept in a jail as inmates. Different type of research has been done, many interesting facts has surfaced. Such as: 70% of people ends by putting their pets for adoption , dogs have lost their original breed over time , many operations are been done on dogs , etc. The author states that if we humans really loved and respected animals we would have left them alone.[ this article is amazing because I feel like it’s a contradiction to the shelter system in whole. It would be great for me to contradict shelthers in a way and show the animal side of the situations; how adoption is as cruel as euthanizing them. ]

Animal shelter killing is something that is very widespread and common even though they do not deserve to die just for the sake of space and money. Imagine a world without comanins without your shoulder to lean on without you netflix buddy without your pets,what would you do? Imagine a world without pets how would you life look right now with no dogs,no cats, no horses. People should not not kill animals, because the joy that animals give us. animals trust us to care for them, and we are betraying their trust.

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