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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@dogsdeserve Dogs Deserve Better 2010 Calendar: No Chained Dogs! Available now. Shipping 11/1. http://bit.ly/1vs59j #animal welfare #dogs
DoggieDog (DoggieDog) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:20:15 -0000
RT@dogsdeserve Dogs Deserve Better 2010 Calendar: No Chained Dogs! Available now. Shipping 11/1. http://bit.ly/1vs59j #animal welfare #dogs
RT @WSPAUSA: This week's featured Member Society: the Animal Welfare Institute http://www.awionline.org/ #animalwelfare
NeghvarNews (Harry Dauz) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:05:09 -0000
RT @WSPAUSA: This week's featured Member Society: the Animal Welfare Institute http://www.awionline.org/ #animalwelfare
RT @eatsustainable: Compelling piece (NYTimes Mag) brings together food, culture, family, animal welfare & more: http://tinyurl.com/yfbgq3x
jake_schultz (Jake Schultz) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:00:24 -0000
RT @eatsustainable: Compelling piece (NYTimes Mag) brings together food, culture, family, animal welfare & more: http://tinyurl.com/yfbgq3x
RT @tothewestside @InAGaddaDaVegan @TashaScherme I know AR is not about animal welfare, but it is often what causes people to go vegan.. ...
veganhelp (Vegan Help Bot) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:00:13 -0000
RT @tothewestside @InAGaddaDaVegan @TashaScherme I know AR is not about animal welfare, but it is often what causes people to go vegan.. ...
RT @dvm360: Schwarzenegger says "Hasta la vista" to two animal-welfare laws: http://bit.ly/15d9M1
ChadMendell (Chad Mendell) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:56:17 -0000
RT @dvm360: Schwarzenegger says "Hasta la vista" to two animal-welfare laws: http://bit.ly/15d9M1
@InAGaddaDaVegan @TashaScherme I know AR is not about animal welfare, but it is often what causes people to go vegan....
tothewestside (Michelle Lee) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:52:40 -0000
@InAGaddaDaVegan @TashaScherme I know AR is not about animal welfare, but it is often what causes people to go vegan....
Northern Virginia Reptile Rescue - Provides rescue, rehabilitation, and relocation for reptiles and amphibians in Northern Virginia.
Northern Virginia Sheltie Rescue - Non-profit organization established to rescue, rehabilitate, and place lost, abused, and abandoned dogs. Information about lost dogs, adoption, volunteers, foster homes and contacts.
S.P.C.A. of Northern Virginia - Animal adoption serving the region. Information about dog and cat adoptions, schedules, spaying, neutering, and contacts.
Meta Description: [ S.P.C.A. Animal Adoption Page for Northern Virginia ]
The Feline Foundation of Greater Washington D.C. - Non-profit organization committed to the rescue, fostering, and adoption of stray, abandoned, and abused cats and kittens in the metropolitan area.
Meta Description: [ The Feline Foundation of Greater Washington, Inc. Website at RescueGroups ]
Wildlife Rescue League - Volunteers rehabilitate injured, orphaned, native wildlife for return to wild, provide wildlife education, public, local agency assistance with problems, and referral to rehabilitators through telephone hotline.
Meta Description: [ The Wildlife Rescue League provides classes for experienced rehabilitators who are renewing their skills,
apprentice rehabilitators, volunteers, and those who want to find out more about what is involved
in rehabilitation. ]
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