2. The Ethical Treatment Of Animals

3. A Controversial Issue ! A Broad Spectrum of Ideas Motivated by Emotion Personal Beliefs

4. What are the different viewpoints  What Do Various Groups Believe?  What Do You Believe?

5. EXTREME VIEW POINTS Animal Exploitation Animal Use Animal Rights Animal Welfare Animal Control Animal Liberation

7. Animal Exploitation Values  Animals are there for our unlimited use and abuse  Entertainment and income  Spectator Sports dog fights  cock fights

8. Animal Use Values  Primarily for human use  Responsible care  Responsible for painless harvesting  Support Intensive farming

9. Animal Control Values  Enforce laws and ordinances  Advocate spaying and neutering  Research for medical use OK.

10. Animal Welfare Values  Support humane treatment of animals that are raised for human needs.  Against the abuse or mistreatment of all animals.  Support the humane treatment of animals for research when justified.  Require spaying and neutering  Euthanize surplus pets

11. Animal Rights Values “A pig is a cow is a boy”

12. Animal Rights Values  Animals are individuals  Animals have the same rights as humans  People do not have the right to use animals for any purpose. No animal research

13. Animal Rights Values  Animals should only be used when they benefit both the animal and the human. Pets are OK  Animals should be free to fulfill their natural instincts Spaying and Neutering your pets is NOT OK!

14. Animal Liberation  Should not be made to perform or to work  Should not be used for human benefit  Liberation of ALL animals  No fishing, hunting, research

15. The Animal Rights Debate

16. Question? Should Animals Have The Same Basic Rights Granted ToBasic Rights Human Beings?

17. Animal Rights  Animals have intrinsic rights  Not killed for any reason  Animals have the right to breed at will  No Animal use Service dogs No horse back riding  Hitler was an “Animal Rightist”

20. “Animal Rights” Organizations  PETA - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals  FARM - Farm Animal Reform Movement  The Animal Liberation Front  The Humane Society of the United States

21. PETA Claims  For 2002 Net Assets = $5,079,120 Contributions = $16,443,110 Staged 611 protests Website visits = 6,970,000 Reached 2,500,000 teachers and students Brochures, ‘fact sheets’ = 5,951,781

22. Animal Rights Groups Argue  Farmers exert excessive control over Animals  They deprive animals of social Interaction

23. Livestock and Poultry Producers Advocate  Their treatment is fair  Animals are more productive in a farm environment  Animals have a better life in domestication, than in wild

24. Agriculture Groups  AIF Animal Industry Foundation  FAWC Farm Animal Welfare Col.  NPPC National Pork Producers  Farm Bureau  County organizations

25. ANIMAL RIGHTS ? !? #1 Animals have personalities, and therefore deserve to be treated as individuals

26. Why The Support For Animal Right

27. All Dogs Go To Heaven

28. Animal Rights #2 The Bible does not advocate man’s use of animals

29. What Does the Bible Say?  Genesis 1:26 And let man rule over the fish, birds, and livestock over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground. Question: Does this verse give man the right to eat meat?

30. Bible  Genesis 9 : 2 All beast of the earth, birds of the air, and fish of the sea, are given into your hands  Genesis 9 : 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you.

31. Vegetarians in U.S.  7% of citizens claim to be Veg.  2/3 of these eat meat regularly  40 % eat red meat  95% eat milk, eggs and cheese This does not leave many true Vegetarians! Information: Dennis Avery Hudson Institute

32. Animal Rights #3 Domestication of Animals is cruel

33. Early Domestication  Nomadic people Draft (transportation) Food, Clothing

34. Today’s Domestication  Provides Animals improved: Nutrition Health

35. Why Domestication  Animals lead a more productive life Healthier, with disease control Temperature control Humidity control Nutrition fine tuned

36. Livestock contribute  Heart Valves 250,000 pig valves in the last 12 years  Skin - Similarity to human skin  Thyroid - Regulate metabolism  Pancreas - 5% of diabetics receive insulin form hogs

37. Other Livestock contributions  Fabric  Buttons  Fertilizer  Antifreeze  China  Water filters

38. Animal Rights #4 Intensive farming is harmful to the environment

39. ANIMAL RIGHTS JOIN WITH ENVIRONMENTALISTS!  Greenhouse Gases Beef Cattle eat roughage and produce methane. Methane is a ‘greenhouse’ gas, thought to cause Global warming

40. COWS VS. TERMINITES  COWS:  50 million tons CH4  TERMITES: 59 Billion Tons CH4

41. How Can Intensive Farming Save the Environment  The increase in crop yields in the past 35 years has saved land 12 to 15 Million acres Equal to US, BRAZIL, and EUROPE Information: Dennis Avery Hudson Institute.

42. Save the Environment – Intensive Farm  If all the Chickens in the U.S. were allowed to go free-range Take all the cropland in Pennsylvania !

43. Save the environment – Intensive Farm!  If all the hogs were set ‘free’ from the confinement facilities: 9.5 million hogs in USA 100 pigs per acre = min of 95,000 acres 9.5 million hogs x 3,800 lbs of manure per hog = 36.1 BILLION TONS of manure allowed to go WHEREVER!

44. WHERE IS THE ISSUE TODAY??

45. Legislation In Europe  Outlawed certain production Systems Caged systems chickens The Meat is certified CAGE FREE Packers will not buy the Meat

46. British Pork Production Practices “Five Freedoms”  Turn Around  Groom itself  Get up  Lie down  Stretch its limbs

47. European Commission Animal Welfare  Ban on individual stalls for sows during pregnancy up to seven days before farrowing  Ban on tethering of sow and gilts  A minimum size of sow pens to allow the animal to turn around

48. European Commission Animal Welfare proposals for 2000  All animals have access to rooting materials and fiber foods  Manure areas must be separate from feeding and resting areas SOURCE: Industry News article, Metafarms

49. Where is This Issue Now?  Adapt scientifically based practices Based on the behavior of the animals  Voluntary animal - care guidelines  Educate citizens  Alleviate animal suffering

50. Abuse of Animals  Should not be tolerated in any form.  Should result in immediate dismissal from job  A very small percentage of people abuse animals or the environment

51. What Do You Believe?  Animal Rights?  Animal Welfare ?  Animal Use?