Attitudes to Animals

Question 1

Hunter gathers attitudes to animals (500,00-11,000 yeas ago)

Answer 1

Animals are full rational, sentient, itelligent, animated by spirits
treated with respect and consideration

Question 2

What ancient agrarian civilisations? (10,00)

Answer 2

• slaughtering only by priests
• animals give assent to be slaughtered
• knife destroyed after slaughter
  -Apolofy in ear of animal
• gods cupable for wanting sacrifice

Question 3

What were the opions at the begining of agricultual socities (4000)

Answer 3

• livestock for food production
• animals ‘willing’
  -dualist approach

Question 4

Plato and Aristotal veiws?

Answer 4

• varied
• some vegetarian and believed in reincarnation
• arastotal permitted meat eating and utalised animals for learning
• animals are not sentient
  -no moral status
• for human purposes

Question 5

What was the change in attitudes in the 18th century?

Answer 5

• realisation that humans part of universe
• closer investigation of natural world
• comparative anatomy revealed similarity to human anatomy
• pets
• reinterpritation of the bible

Question 6

What were Marshalls halls priciples?

Answer 6

no experiment should take place if the necessary information could be gained by observation
- only experiments that would result in furfill ment would result in the forfillment of clearly defiend and attainable aims ought to proceed
- all experiments should be witnessed by peers, further reducing the need for repetition

Question 7

What were peter singers ideals?

Answer 7

• There is no justifiable property of all humans that animals dont have
• Sentient organisums (aware of existance)
• sentient organisums (not aware of existance)
• insentient organisums

Question 8

The aniaml welfare act of 2006?

Answer 8

• tougher penalties
• licencing required

Question 9

What is zoocentric framework?

Answer 9

sentient animals aslo have intrisic value and moral significace

Question 10

What is anthropentric framework?

Answer 10

Only humans have intrinsic value or are morally significant

Question 11

What is biocentric framework?

Answer 11

All living being have significane. value individual species

Question 12

What is ecocentric framework?

Answer 12

moral concern for populations, species and ecosystems. ecosystem as a whole.

Question 13

What are the BUAV arguments against animal experimentation?

Answer 13

• no consent
• they do not benifit from research
• why should animals not recieve animal compassion
• non-human animals not an acurate model for human disease
• poorley designed expeiments
• experiments may not have good purpose