Animal Roles

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Animal Roles

• Food Clothing
• Leather, meat, fur, hair
• Sports Recreation
• Hunting, racing, showing, riding
• Service Protection
• Therapy, search and rescue, drug/bomb detection,
  attack, guard, guide and aide, seizure detection,
  herding, water rescue

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Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare

• Rights
• Using animals for human purposes is ethically and
  morally wrong. Animal Rightists believe that
  animals should not be used for food, clothing,
  recreation, research, or to harvest medicinal
  organs and fluid factors. They believe that
  animals should have the same rights as humans and
  that humans should care for and protect animals.
• Welfare
• Animals should be treated in a humane manner and
  provided with adequate housing, nutrition,
  disease prevention, and humane treatment and
  handling. People in favor of animal welfare
  believe that animals can be used for food and for
  research when no other alternatives exist.

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Welfare Timeline

• 1641 The Body of Liberties legal code passed
  by the Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 1828 First anti-cruelty law passed by New York
  legislature
• 1866 American Society for the Prevention of
  Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed
• 1867 Henry Bergh drafted An Act for More
  Effectual Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• 1906 The Animal Transportation Act was passed

• 1958 The Humane Slaughter Act was passed
• 1964 Ruth Harrison wrote Animal Machines The
  New Factory Farming Industry
• 1966 Laboratory Animal Welfare Act (AWA)
  passed
• 1970 AWA was amended
• 1970 The Horse Protection Act passed
• early 1970s modern animal rights movement
  began
• 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act was passed
• 1973 Endangered Species Act was passed

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Welfare Timeline Continued

• 1975 Peter Singer writes animal Liberation
• 1976 Horse Protection Act was amended
• 1985 Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals
  Act was passed
• 1986 Animal Liberation Front (ALF) destroys
  labs at Oregon State University
• 1989 The Farm Animal and Research Facilities
  Protection Act was introduced

• 1990 Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade
  Act was passed
• 1990 March for the Animals in Washington D.C.
• 1992 The Animal Enterprise Protection Act was
  passed
• 1999 Federal Law Enforcement Animal Protection
  Act was passed
• 2002 AWA amended
• 2002 Animal Fighting Enforcement Act
  introduced
• 2002 Captive Wildlife Safety Act introduced