Welfare and Laws

Question 1

What is animal welfare? (3)

Answer 1

Ok to use animals for humane use.
- humane treatment
- reduce suffering
- basic needs met

Question 2

What are animal rights? (3)

Answer 2

• philosophical
• regarding use of animals
• “Sliding scale”

Question 3

What were the first uses of animals? (4)

Answer 3

• food
• work
• fiber
• pursuit of knowledge

Question 4

What year did animal studies begin?

Answer 4

384 b.c.

Question 5

Who recorded the first purposeful disections?

Answer 5

Aristotle

Question 6

What is a vivisection?

Answer 6

Dissection in live animals

Question 7

What year was anestesia discovered?

Answer 7

1846

Question 8

Who developed vaccines? When?

Answer 8

Louis Pasture, 1800s

Question 9

What was the first animal welfare organization?

Answer 9

RSPCA (Royal Society for Prevention of Animal Cruelty

Question 10

When was the RCPCA established?

Answer 10

1825

Question 11

What did the RSPCA do?

Answer 11

Advocated for welfare of working animals
- pit ponies
- cattle

Question 12

What did the RSPCA later extend to? (3)

Answer 12

• domestic animals
• bear fighting
• cock fighting

Question 13

When was the ASPCA developed?

Answer 13

1866

Question 14

What does ASPCA stand for?

Answer 14

American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Question 15

Did the ASPCA have legal support?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

When and where was the Cruelty to Animals Act developed?

Answer 16

In the U.K., 1876

Question 17

What did the Cruelty to Animals Act do? (3)

Answer 17

• restrictions on animal experimentation
• world’s first legislation regulation animals used in research
  (curar no longer acceptable)
• penalties

Question 18

When was the American Humane adopted?

Answer 18

1877

Question 19

What did the American Humane do?

Answer 19

Farm animal welfare
- unified voice of multiple SPCAs throughout the U.S.

Question 20

What happened in 1958?

Answer 20

U.S. has first legal animal protection act

Question 21

What was the first legal animal protection act in the U.S.?

Answer 21

Humane Slaughter Act

Question 22

What happened in the U.K. in 1965?

Answer 22

developed Brambell Report and 5 Freedoms

Question 23

What are the 5 Freedoms?

Answer 23

• response to public discomfort
• considers animal physiological needs, quality of life
• basis for modern animal welfare legislation