Animal Right Flashcards
How do humans and animals differ?
We have a greater impact. We use logic and reasoning. We have a soul. We follow moral colds. We communicate in complex ways.
What are religious ideas about animals ?
God made animals, then humans. God gave us autonomy over the animals. Those who treat their animals cruelly will be punished. We are more important. We can use animals for our benefit.
Describe animal roles as our companions…
Companions are our pets, or guide dogs for the blind and hearing dogs.
We see these animals as friends.
These animals give us comfort.
They have a higher status.
They have more rights because of their status.
Describe the issues with animals as workers…
They are sometimes called ‘beasts of burden.’
They do lots of work involving heavy work for us. They transport loads, plough fields, and do lots of work in developing countries. In developed countries, these animals will search for explosives and drugs. This gives them a status, but they are often works to death and training is very difficult, giving some an elite status. The animals don’t live a natural life.
Describe the issues with animals in the fur and Ivory trades…
Battery farms are where animals are bred for their fur in tiny spaces to increase profit. Mink, (cold animals), are often bred in hot countries like Korea.
The fur farms are cruel.
Ivory is a small part of elephants.
We don’t need fur in the modern world.
Describe sports animals are used in…
Dog and horse races.
Blood sports: hunting, hare coursing, dog fights.
What are the issues with animals in sports?
Animals that don’t make the grade are often killed.
People find sports thrilling.
Most blood sports are cruel to at least one of the animals.
These sports do not let animals live their natural lives.
What are the issues with bull fighting, (where a Matador uses set moves to fight a bull and kill it)?
This is cruel to Bulls.
Bulls often die in agony.
Treatment of winning bulls is poor - many die.
Complete the quotes.
‘…’ Genesis 10:9
‘ whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel,’
’ he was a mighty hunter before the Lord.’
Proverbs 12:10
Complete the quotes…
‘…..’, Genesis 27:3
‘ Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one sparrow is forgotten by God.’…
‘…..’ Acts 10:13
‘Now then, take your weapons, your quiver, and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.’
Luke 12:6-7
‘ Rise Peter; kill and eat.’
What is meant by animal rights?
Animal rights are the rights animals have. to a life without cruelty, and to have good treatment. We cannot do what we want with them or to them, they have the right to be treated properly, fairly, and with kindness, even when we intend to kill them. Laws in the UK protect domestic animals, farm animals, and endangered animals.
What are some uses of animals?
As pets/companions.
As exercise – horses.
As workers – guide dogs, police dogs, customs dogs, hunting dogs, hunting birds; also as beasts of burden.
As providers – sheep and wool, cowls for milk, hence for eggs, bees for honey.
as food – lamb, cows, hands, dear, pigs, fish.
As experimental test subjects – mice, rats, monkeys, dogs.
As sport – bulls for bull fighting, birds for shooting, deer/rabbits/hare/fox.
Describe the farming of animals, and the issues that come with it.
Nearly all the food we eat comes from farms: dairy products, props, and meet. These foods are crucial to our survival. Cheaper meat comes from battery farms, and farms also can produce free range meat, animals allowed to roam free, which is more expensive.
Animals are just treated as products, farming means they live unnatural lives and these are in cruel conditions, many animals are fattened and killed before they reached adulthood.
Describe animals in hunting and the issues that come with it
This is the chasing and hunting of animals and birds. Hunting could be for food, fur, or sports
Traps used in hunting a cruel, often not killing an animal quickly, and catching intended victims. Moreover just killing animals for sport is immoral religious or not, and hunting is making some species extinct.
Describe animal experiments and the key issues.
Animals are bred deliberately as an experimental subject, experiments test toxicity, how poisonous something is, medicines, and medical techniques. Experiments are for the good of humans. Animals can suffer greatly, many experiments seem unnecessary, such as testing another version of a product which has already been tested, and animals cannot in any way live natural lives.
