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Today's topics are,
・What is Animal Welfare Act?
・What's the difference between Animal Rights and Animal Welfare?
・Are animals in circuses happy?
・Are animals in aquariums happy?
I hope you like them!
What is Animal Welfare Act?
Animal Welfare Act is the law that regulates the treatment of animals signed in 1966. It's the only Federal in the United States that regulates to protect animal the basic welfare. This law covers facilities that use animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. These include zoos, aquariums, research facilities, puppy mills, animal dealers and circuses. Thses do not include farms, pet shops and hobby breeders.
Moreover, AWA has exclusion for birds, rats, mice used in research, livestock used for food or fiber, and reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates.
Animal Welfare basically says that humans have a right to use animals as long as the animals are treated well.
We need to distinguish it from Animal Rights because they are so different.
Animal Welfare Act. (n.d.). Retrieved July 17, 2017, from https://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/animal-welfare-act
Lin, D. (n.d.). Important Facts About the Animal Welfare Act. Retrieved July 17, 2017, from https://www.thoughtco.com/overview-of-the-animal-welfare-act-127546
What's the difference between Animal Rights and Animal Welfare?
Now I'll explain the difference.
As I wrote above, Animal Welfare viewpoint basically endorse humans to use animals for their benefits or needs as long as they comply with certain regulations, regulations which ensure all animals used by humans have their basic needs fulfilled in terms of food, shelter and health. And there shouldn't be any unnecessary suffering to them.
On the other hand, Animal Rights advocate that humans have no rights to use animals for them. It seeks to eliminate the consumption of animals.
As an extension of this philosophy, many Animal Rights advocates support veganism.
(n.d.). Retrieved July 17, 2017, from http://www.citationmachine.net/bibliographies/216377516?new=true
Lin, D. (n.d.). What Is the Difference between Animal Rights and Welfare? Retrieved July 17, 2017, from https://www.thoughtco.com/animal-rights-v-animal-welfare-127592
Today's topics are,
・What is Animal Welfare Act?
・What's the difference between Animal Rights and Animal Welfare?
・Are animals in circuses happy?
・Are animals in aquariums happy?
I hope you like them!
What is Animal Welfare Act?
Animal Welfare Act is the law that regulates the treatment of animals signed in 1966. It's the only Federal in the United States that regulates to protect animal the basic welfare. This law covers facilities that use animals in research, exhibition, transport, and by dealers. These include zoos, aquariums, research facilities, puppy mills, animal dealers and circuses. Thses do not include farms, pet shops and hobby breeders.
Moreover, AWA has exclusion for birds, rats, mice used in research, livestock used for food or fiber, and reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates.
Animal Welfare basically says that humans have a right to use animals as long as the animals are treated well.
We need to distinguish it from Animal Rights because they are so different.
Animal Welfare Act. (n.d.). Retrieved July 17, 2017, from https://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/animal-welfare-act
Lin, D. (n.d.). Important Facts About the Animal Welfare Act. Retrieved July 17, 2017, from https://www.thoughtco.com/overview-of-the-animal-welfare-act-127546
What's the difference between Animal Rights and Animal Welfare?
Now I'll explain the difference.
As I wrote above, Animal Welfare viewpoint basically endorse humans to use animals for their benefits or needs as long as they comply with certain regulations, regulations which ensure all animals used by humans have their basic needs fulfilled in terms of food, shelter and health. And there shouldn't be any unnecessary suffering to them.
On the other hand, Animal Rights advocate that humans have no rights to use animals for them. It seeks to eliminate the consumption of animals.
As an extension of this philosophy, many Animal Rights advocates support veganism.
(n.d.). Retrieved July 17, 2017, from http://www.citationmachine.net/bibliographies/216377516?new=true
Are animals in circuses happy?
I have never seen a circus before, so I don't know much about it, but seen many images on TV.
Animals in a circus do many tricks and entertain audiences. Kids enjoy it so much and love it. However, what does a circus tell those kids? Does it teach them educational lessons?
Circus animals, elephants, tigers, bears, and other animals are confined in small cages and spend most of the times including eating, sleeping urinating and defecating in the cage except the times of performing.
In the performances, animals stand on their heads, jump through hoops, balance on pedestals and so on. Watching animals do these tricks may be surprising and exciting, but as everyone knows, wild animals never do such things. Circus animals do it because they are trained and forced to do. Trainers use painful tools such as whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods etc to force the animals to perform.
Animal welfare experts say it's stressful and grueling for circus animals to be on the board, confined and made to perform before screaming audiences.
To control animals for a circus, they are forced to "interact" with human from their early ages. This "interact" doesn't mean to play with them, it's more like abusing. For example, being struck with bullhooks till they are docile enough to follow commends.
The world has started to realize the cruelty of circuses, and now many countries ban circuses with animals.
More than 40 countries have laws which ban or restrict animal circuses.
In UK, over 200 local authorities have bans on them.
In USA, 27 states partially or fully ban them.
Surprisingly, Asian countries familiar to us (Japan, China, Korea) don't have bans on animal circuses. Now we see what we should address.
To conclude, animals in circuses don't seem to be happy at all.
Why All of America's Circus Animals Could Soon be Free. (2017, July 13). Retrieved July 16, 2017, from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/wildlife-watch-ringling-circus-animal-welfare-photography/
Circuses. (n.d.). Retrieved July 16, 2017, from https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/circuses/
Circus bans. (n.d.). Retrieved July 16, 2017, from http://www.stopcircussuffering.com/circus-bans/
Lin, D. (n.d.). Why Do Animal Rights Activists Oppose Aquariums? Retrieved July 17, 2017, from https://www.thoughtco.com/whats-wrong-with-aquariums-127638
Aquariums and Marine Parks. (n.d.). Retrieved July 17, 2017, from https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/zoos-pseudo-sanctuaries/aquariums-marine-parks/
葛西臨海水族園：マグロ大量死は複数要因 調査結果発表. (2016, April 07). Retrieved July 17, 2017, from https://mainichi.jp/articles/20160408/k00/00m/040/061000c
葛西臨海水族園マグロ大量死「複合的要因」で. (n.d.). Retrieved July 17, 2017, from http://www9.nhk.or.jp/kabun-blog/200/242003.html
I have never seen a circus before, so I don't know much about it, but seen many images on TV.
Animals in a circus do many tricks and entertain audiences. Kids enjoy it so much and love it. However, what does a circus tell those kids? Does it teach them educational lessons?
Circus animals, elephants, tigers, bears, and other animals are confined in small cages and spend most of the times including eating, sleeping urinating and defecating in the cage except the times of performing.
In the performances, animals stand on their heads, jump through hoops, balance on pedestals and so on. Watching animals do these tricks may be surprising and exciting, but as everyone knows, wild animals never do such things. Circus animals do it because they are trained and forced to do. Trainers use painful tools such as whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods etc to force the animals to perform.
Animal welfare experts say it's stressful and grueling for circus animals to be on the board, confined and made to perform before screaming audiences.
To control animals for a circus, they are forced to "interact" with human from their early ages. This "interact" doesn't mean to play with them, it's more like abusing. For example, being struck with bullhooks till they are docile enough to follow commends.
The world has started to realize the cruelty of circuses, and now many countries ban circuses with animals.
More than 40 countries have laws which ban or restrict animal circuses.
In UK, over 200 local authorities have bans on them.
In USA, 27 states partially or fully ban them.
Surprisingly, Asian countries familiar to us (Japan, China, Korea) don't have bans on animal circuses. Now we see what we should address.
To conclude, animals in circuses don't seem to be happy at all.
Why All of America's Circus Animals Could Soon be Free. (2017, July 13). Retrieved July 16, 2017, from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/wildlife-watch-ringling-circus-animal-welfare-photography/
Are animals in aquariums happy?
Just like circus animals, aquarium animals (marine mammals) are in captivity and can swim in endless circles in tanks, denied the opportunity of natural behavior. I can't imagine how stressful it is.
Few years ago, the news that bluefin tunas in Kasai Rinkai Aquarium in Tokyo died over about 4 months starting in 2014. More than 60 had been dying one by one and media said, "the mysterious death of bluefin tunas." After the inspection of the mysterious death, the aquarium disclosed it has multiple causes. One is bacterial infection, secondly bumping against a wall, thirdly stress from certain movement of individual, and saturated condition in tanks.
Is it only me who thinks it wouldn't have happened if they were in the open ocean?
Dolphins, orcas, see dogs and penguins are forced to perform in shows just like circus animals.
Being trained tricks and performing those may be very stressful to them. It's so meaningless to do.
Even if they are treated well in aquariums, can we say using the animals for hunan benefits is a right thing to do?
Thank you for reading!
I feel bad for the animals in aquariums! I have seen a post on the newspaper before about a white bear name 'Cookie ' who lived in a aquarium inside a shopping mall in China. He got too many stress from the small living environment and the flashes of the cameras from the visitors. It might be intereseting to see animals so close for us, but I am sure animals are feeling stress by being looked at by humans all day long in a small area. We must be careful of our manners when we go to the zoo or aquariums not to give too many stress to the animals!
返信削除Your questions were well researched and I read your commentary with interest. I had also heard about the bluefin tuna dying at the Kasai Rinkai Aquarium and felt disgusted that they didn't think that simply being in captivity was the biggest problem. I make it a point not to go to aquariums for this reason.
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