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Animal welfare is the viewpoint that animals, especially those under human care, should not suffer unnecessarily, including where the animals are used for food, work, companionship, or research. This position usually focuses on the morality of human action (or inaction), as opposed to making deeper political or philosophical claims about the status of animals, as is the case for an animal rights viewpoint. For this reason animal welfare organizations may use the word humane in their title or position statements.
History of animal welfare
Systematic concern for the well-being of other animals probably first arose as a system of thought in the Indus Valley Civilization as the religious belief that ancestors return in animal form, and that animals must therefore be treated with the respect due to a human. This belief is exemplified in the existing religion, Jainism, and in varieties of other Dharmic religions. Other religions, especially those with roots in the Abrahamic religion, treat animals as the property of their owners, codifying rules for their care and slaughter premised mainly on hygiene concerns for humans.
Welfare in practice
As in the case of animal rights, the secular forms taken by animal welfare concerns, policies and action have each been pioneered in the UK, where an early industrial revolution first created the modern separation between popular experience and animal husbandry, opening a space for popular sentimentality towards animals. More on [ Animal welfare ]
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RT @amandaspets National Lawyers Guild offers resource for animal welfare activists: http://bit.ly/UhmGA
MAGDRL (Joan Schramm) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:49:13 -0000
RT @amandaspets National Lawyers Guild offers resource for animal welfare activists: http://bit.ly/UhmGA
National Lawyers Guild offers resource for animal welfare activists: http://bit.ly/UhmGA
amandaspets (Amanda Carlson) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:00:51 -0000
National Lawyers Guild offers resource for animal welfare activists: http://bit.ly/UhmGA
RT: Vetsweb "Chinese lawmakers warn of epidemic animal disease threats" #animal welfare #veterinary http://bit.ly/5HhaC
Ehkeskus (EHK) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:53:14 -0000
RT: Vetsweb "Chinese lawmakers warn of epidemic animal disease threats" #animal welfare #veterinary http://bit.ly/5HhaC
I want 1. RT @OakleyAftrHours: League 4 Animal Welfare Adoption will B @ Voltage Lofts tomorrow 6-10pm w/ pets 2 adopt! http://bit.ly/rt1DH
HYPECincinnati (Hype Cincinnati) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:49:00 -0000
I want 1. RT @OakleyAftrHours: League 4 Animal Welfare Adoption will B @ Voltage Lofts tomorrow 6-10pm w/ pets 2 adopt! http://bit.ly/rt1DH
RT @animalag: New 21-member independent beef welfare advisory group formed, use science to help improve animal welfare: http://bit.ly/TIrlc
IowaFarmWriter (Heather ) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:41:07 -0000
RT @animalag: New 21-member independent beef welfare advisory group formed, use science to help improve animal welfare: http://bit.ly/TIrlc
The League for Animal Welfare Adoption van will be at the Voltage Lofts tomorrow nite, 6-10pm with pets to adopt! http://bit.ly/rt1DH
OakleyAftrHours (Oakley After Hours) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:17:11 -0000
The League for Animal Welfare Adoption van will be at the Voltage Lofts tomorrow nite, 6-10pm with pets to adopt! http://bit.ly/rt1DH
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