What's the difference between "Animal Welfare" and "Animal Rights"?!
What's the difference between "Animal Welfare" and "Animal Rights"?
I think one of them makes up extreemists like PETA and the other makes up realistic organizations like the Humane Society.
Don't try to tell me how good an orgainzation PETA is in your answers, just tell me the difference between the two. I don't know whether I'm supportive of animal rights or animal welfare.
4 months ago
Gee, Mr. Dorkface, was I not clear about my opinion of PETA when I said that they were extreemists? I will try to make it more clear next time.
4 months ago
D'Mundo, this is the only place where I can catagorize this question and get a serious answer. The last time I made the mistake of catagorizing this anywhere else I got a lot of "who cares" and "we don't all have to be vegitarians!" and other load of crap answers. I put this here because a vegitarian usually cares deeply about animals and will know something about the subject and won't tell me "who cares?".
4 months ago
I got the joke the first time, Mr. Dorkface. It's not funny.
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4 months ago
Gee, Mr. Dorkface, was I not clear about my opinion of PETA when I said that they were extreemists? I will try to make it more clear next time.
4 months ago
D'Mundo, this is the only place where I can catagorize this question and get a serious answer. The last time I made the mistake of catagorizing this anywhere else I got a lot of "who cares" and "we don't all have to be vegitarians!" and other load of crap answers. I put this here because a vegitarian usually cares deeply about animals and will know something about the subject and won't tell me "who cares?".
4 months ago
I got the joke the first time, Mr. Dorkface. It's not funny.
Since so many vegans and vegetarians cite Animal Welfare, Animal Rights and Animal Liberation as their reasons for being veg, why wouldn't this be the right place to ask your question?
Animal welfare is a legal issue. By law certain animals are protected by law from abuse. Our government draws the line at food animals. For instance, your pet pot bellied pig is protected from the neighborhood kid who might want to kill it with a baseball bat. But a "hog" which is a pig for food is not protected from being bludgeoned to death by some farm hand whose gene pool is not quite full.
Animal rights is a movement to make ALL animals protected by animal welfare. The right to humane euthanasia. The right to sunlight and fresh air. The right to NOT be beaten to death or suffocated.
I don't think you can lump all of PETA into the extremist catalog. That's pure bigotry. Not all Christians are extremists. Not all African Americans are criminals. Bigotries we just love to embrace. So sad...
But just as there are people who take God's message where it was never meant to go, there are people who use PETA as a means to destroy property.
Our government launched the Animal Enterprise Terrorist. In my point of view THAT is a little extreme. Look it up and see if you agree. If we silence the public voice over meat and dairy because they might lose some money, shouldn't we also silence the voice of the public who disagree with ANY business? Isn't that the only fair way to go about it?
Really. If one protests Nike because they use child labor, one might cause Nike to lose money. One should go to jail like the meat protesters do...
Source(s):
http://www.nlg.org/news/statements/aeta_...
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext...
http://www.shac7.com/
again.. only if the animal is making less than 20k a year and has a brood or pride.. herd.. whatever of more than 30 can they apply for 'animal welfare'.
Animal "Welfare" suggests that humans are responsible for taking care of animals, as lesser beings, and assuring their health and giving them a comfortable existence. Animal "rights" suggests that animals are entitled to fair treatment just like humans, as they are also living creatures. Different philosophical stances with different implications for what animals deserve.
"Animal welfare" is concern for the treatment on animals. Particularly with respect to actions which could harm or kill.
"Animal rights" is the belief that animals have basic "rights."
For example, you can be someone that believes that animals should not be tortured, because it's cruel. That's "animal welfare." However, if you believe they shouldn't be tortured because animals have a "right" not to be, that's "animal rights."
"Animal rights" is a more controversial concept, since it says that animals have "God-given" or "legal" rights. Many people, even those that feel it's cruel to hurt an animal, do not believe this is because of "rights."
this question shouldnt be categorized here, but anyway....Animal rights says that you not allowed to discipline your pet, starting with acceptable living conditions and food which i totally agree with, but some of the goofballs that think they know how to train your animal better than you do, will even say that striking your pet in any way is unlawful as well.
Animal welfare is conservation & ordinances to keep wild animals protected & such. population control for example
Animal welfare means that humans have option to use animals in ways that benefit them but they must treat them in a humane manner. An example of this would be if you thought it was okay to eat chicken but thought it should not be abused before being killed for it's meat. You would buy your chicken from a farm that did not raise them in cramped cages but let them roam freely and enjoy their lives until they were slaughtered.
Animal right means you believe animals are not ours to use in any manner. You would agree they are sentient beings (meaning they experience sensations and feelings) and should not be used by humans in entertainment, research or as food.
The Humane Society uses the AW approach as a way to introduce changes to the worst offenses and to improve the lives of animals that will still ultimately be killed for food. They endorse a vegetarian/vegan so they in favor of people abstaining from all animal products.
PETA is more obviously in favor of AR - but they do take on AW as well. The KFC campaign is about improving the lives of chickens that are killed for KFC.
It is complicated subject. I am for animal rights but I can appreciate people who are helping to make changes for animals that will be slaughtered.
animal welfare is to help animals. Animal rights is to be a turd.
I think you're spot on with one being PETA nut-jobs, and similar, and one being Humane Societies, and similar.
"animal welfare is to help animals. Animal rights is to be a turd" is not a bad answer...
Animal rights is COMPLETE liberation--that is what PETA is for, along with COK, Vegan Outreach, etc. Also the ALF is for animal rights, but I seperate myself from the ALF 100% because they are true extremists, by far worse than PETA. The ALF is illegal, PETA is not (well, for the most part...).
The ASPCA, Humane Society, and other organizations like these are for animal welfare, which simply protests for better living conditions, less hormones, and the like.
If you are not a fan of PETA I am assuming you would be for animal welfare, correct?
If you want the best answer I can find on the net, go here: http://animal-law.org/theory3.html...
Peta is an Animal Welfare organization, not a Rights organization, despite what they say.
I'm not going to get into the Peta Discussion here.