Animal Welfare Flashcards
Five Freedoms
Freedom from…
1) Hunger and thirst
2) Discomfort
3) Pain, injury and disease
4) To express normal behaviour
5) Fear and distress
RSPCA five needs
1) Access to fresh water and a suitable diet
2) Adequate shelter
3) Access to vet treatment
4) Company of other animals to behave naturally
5) Conditions where they wont suffer, that don’t frighten them
The five domains (Mellor)
- Nutrition
- Environment
- Health
- Behaviour
- Mental State
Section 4; Animal Welfare act
- Criminal offence for a person to cause unnecessary suffering to a protected animal
Section 9; Animal Welfare Act
Duty of care for a responsible person to provide adequately for animal welfare
- including by omission
Descartes
We have retained from our infancy the false belief that beasts think
- no perception of pain
Immanuel Kant
- cruelty to animals deadens man in feeling sympathy for their suffering
- which is very useful to morality in relation to other humans
Jeremy Bentham
- Question is can animals suffer?
Richard Martin
bill to protect horses mules and cattle from cruelty
later extended to all domestic animals
Behavioural Indicators of poor welfare
- Limited range of activity
- Abnormal fear or aggression
- Fighting
- Steryotypies
“Animals do not require moral consideration”
- Contractarian; cannot enter contract with animals
- Anthropocentric
” Animals require moral consideration because they can suffer”
- Babies and disabled people have moral status; cannot speak
’ Animals require moral consideration because they have intrinsic value’
- Each animal matter for its own sake
Four guiding principles from medical ethics
1) non-maleficence
2) Beneficence
3) Autonomy
4) Justice
Six-point framework for action
1) Identify all courses of action
2) Establish interests of affected parties
3) Identify ethical issues
4) Establish legal position
5) Choose logical course of action
6) Minimise impact of action
