Gourt > Regional > North America > United States > Massachusetts > Society and Culture > Animal Welfare
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 ]
Massachusetts HospitalsPhysicians in Massachusetts
Animals :: Business and Economy
Animal Welfare :: Society and Culture
Animal Welfare :: Society and Culture
Animal Welfare :: Issues
Animal Welfare :: Organizations
Adopt a pet: Lander: NECN (NECN) - Jocelyn Layman of the Animal Welfare Society in West Kennebunk, Maine is look.. http://bit.ly/6LSuw
myblogabout (Henry Brown) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:39:53 -0000
Adopt a pet: Lander: NECN (NECN) - Jocelyn Layman of the Animal Welfare Society in West Kennebunk, Maine is look.. http://bit.ly/6LSuw
Biggleswade & Sandy [Animal Welfare, Lost & Found] Cats Looking for Homes: Can you find space.. http://bit.ly/MybM
sg18sg19news (Joanne & Tania) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:22 -0000
Biggleswade & Sandy [Animal Welfare, Lost & Found] Cats Looking for Homes: Can you find space.. http://bit.ly/MybM
RT @manfredistefano: @SimonThomsen study did not consider pesticides, animal welfare issues, land and environment issues...just nutrients!
SOLE_Mama (SOLE Mama) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:13:17 -0000
RT @manfredistefano: @SimonThomsen study did not consider pesticides, animal welfare issues, land and environment issues...just nutrients!
Someone says: @kandydevil you should have made a video. Sell it to followers to benefit animal welfare c.. #Charity #Nonprofit
CharityRT (CharityRT) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:57:38 -0000
Someone says: @kandydevil you should have made a video. Sell it to followers to benefit animal welfare c.. #Charity #Nonprofit
@kandydevil you should have made a video. Sell it to followers to benefit animal welfare charity. LOL
Olroy17 (Roy Weinstein) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:55:50 -0000
@kandydevil you should have made a video. Sell it to followers to benefit animal welfare charity. LOL
Mani Ratnam in trouble again - Oneindia: SifyMani Ratnam in trouble againOneindiaThe Animal Welfare Board Of Ind.. http://bit.ly/AJXye
1entertainment1 (entertainmentnews) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:49:07 -0000
Mani Ratnam in trouble again - Oneindia: SifyMani Ratnam in trouble againOneindiaThe Animal Welfare Board Of Ind.. http://bit.ly/AJXye
k9finder - Resource for providing local animal control officers and the general public of western Massachusetts a place to exchange information regarding lost, abandoned, found and adoptable dogs.
Meta Description: [ Web site to help cities/towns as well as the public of western massachusetts find homes for lost and/or abandoned dogs ]
Massachusetts Vest-A-Dog - Fundraising group to raise money to provide bullet proof vests for K9 units in state.
The Bobbie Project - Designs programs to ensure the health and welfare of its dogs, including the establishment of a foundation to support the purchase and training of police dogs and providing veterinary care to canine officers. Information on services and photos of dogs.
| Acuario de Bergen, Noruega-Mantarrayas-Bergen Aquarius 3 | |
| Next Video | |
