ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS

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ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS

• AGST 3000
• Agriculture, Environment, and Society
• Lecture 7

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ISSUES

• Difficult Topic, No Easy Answers
• Very Political
• Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare

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Some Interesting Sites
http//www.labanimalwelfare.org/ http//www.nal.us
da.gov/awic/index.html http//www.hsus.org/ace/115
13 http//environment12.tripod.com/animal_rights.h
tm Animal Cruelty is against the Law!
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How Animals are used

• Animals for meat
• Animals for milk
• Animals for fiber
• Animals for pharmaceutical production (live)
• Animals for pharmaceutical production (organs)
• Animals for research
• Animals for companionship
• Animals for exhibition
• Other?

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• Laboratory Animals for Research
• 23 million mice are used in research each year
  (95)
• Rats make up the second largest group
• Followed by birds

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• Animal Agriculture
• Pastoral vs. Confinement

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Agriculture as the target

• Why?
• Media sensationalism
• PETA, ALF
• Again, what is justified, scientific, and valid
• Continues to be a difficult area for most people

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• Specific Food and Fiber Specie Issues
• Husbandry practices
• Based primarily on safety and health, consumer
  preference, and economics.
• Some specific practices, poorly understood by the
  public and are sources of misinformation
  disseminated by opponents of animal agriculture

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CATTLE

• 1. Restraint
• 2. Management practices
• a. branding
• b. dehorning
• c. castration
• d. ear tagging/marking
• 3. Dairy Industry
• a. BST (Bovine Somatotropin)
• b. Genetics (bio-engineering)
• c. Calf rearing (confinement)
• d. Veal production (abuses)

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POULTRY

• 1. Confinement production
• a. caged laying hens
• b. large scale broiler
• 2. Production
• 3. Force molting
• 4. Beak Trimming

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HORSES

• 1. Confinement
• 2. PMSG production
• (Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin)
• increases the number of follicles developing in
  the ovary of non-horse species
• Used to induce labor in horse and some other
  species
• 3. Show strategies

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SWINE

• 1. Confinement production
• a. farrowing crates
• b. market hog production
• 2. Management practices
• a. ear notching
• b. tail removal
• c. needle teeth removal

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Sheep

• a. Castration
• b. Ear tagging/marking
• c. Docking
• d. Shearing

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Companion Animals

• Animal Cruelty
• Neglect
• Abuse
• Pet Shops
• Puppy mills
• Fighting

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Tough one

• It is up to the individual as to how they feel
  personally.
• Research the issues
• What are the alternatives?
• Vegetarian, human research subjects, no companion
  animals?
• No easy answers!