Animal Welfare Flashcards
Welfare refers to
The state of an individual as it attempts to cope with its environment
Prescriptive Zone
Body adapting to maintain normal body temperature/health
Tolerance Zone
Adaptation alone is not enough, may lead to compromised physiological functions
Survival Zone
Outside Tolerance Zone—> severe stress, system function failure, risk of death
Thermoneutral Zone (TNZ)
Normal body response to maintain homeostasis
Sentience
Capacity to experience different feelings
Five Freedoms
- Freedom from hunger and thirst
- Freedom from discomfort
- Freedom from pain, injury, or disease
- Freedom to express normal behavior
- Freedom from fear and distress
Three concepts of Animal Welfare
-biological function (ie. behaviour, physiology, health, productivity)
-affective state (ie. how an animal feels)
-natural state (the ideal environment for a particular species)
5 Domains of Animal Welfare
- Nutrition
- Environment
- Health
- Behaviour
- Mental State
Values
Personal principles that what YOU believe to be correct/important/desirable (formed over time)
Morals
Judgements/beliefs about right or wrong and good or bad (variation worldwide)
Ethics
Study of concepts of right and wrong when applied to conduct/behaviour
Stereotypies
Repetitive behaviour with no obvious purpose (typically associated with boredom)
Animal Ethics
Examines human-animal relationship, moral consideration of animals, and how non-human animals ought to be treated
Three R’s
-Refine
-Reduce
-Replace
Perception
Being aware of changes happening around you
Cognition
Ability to remember, process, and assess information to meet individual needs
Anthropomorphism
Attribution of human traits/emotions/intentions to non-human entities
Ethology
Scientific study of behaviour of animals in their natural environment
Sympathy
Understanding from your own perspective (can cloud our judgement)
Empathy
Putting yourself in other’s perspective
Handling of animals involves four key elements:
-Welfare
-Behaviour
-Husbandry
-Ethical Interactions
3 concepts to explain animal welfare:
-Biological Function (behaviour, physiology, health, productivity)
-Affective State (ability to experience positive and negative feelings/emotions)
-Natural State View (the ideal environment for a particular species)
Early animal welfare was mainly focused on
Ensuring the absence of negative experiences (avoiding suffering)
Institutional Ethics is based on
A code of conduct at the workplace
Professional Ethics is
A code of conduct describing behavioural expectations for a specific profession
Laws are
Basic, enforceable standard of behaviour
Social license is based on
The premise that regulatory permission is NOT sufficient alone to allow companies to operate (they must have social permission)
Input Measures represent
-indirect parameters (training, housing/diet, breeding)
-easier to assess than Output Measures
Output Measures represent
-direct parameters (body lesions/condition, lameness, etc.)
-more difficult to measure than Input Measures
QA stands for
Quality Assurance
International Standards of Animal Welfare are governed by the
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
