Animals in Society TM 1

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

Animals in Society TM 2

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.

Animals in Society TM 3

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 1970’s – 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