Transcript Session 3 - ELISTA Education

ANIMAL WELFARE
ELISTA Education 2011
The Five Freedoms &
Anthrozoology
Last month…
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What is welfare?
Well-being/Being well
Anthropomorphism
Perceptions & Opinions: Animal Welfare
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Personality
Experience
Knowledge
Gender
Religion & Culture
Environment
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Nature vs Nurture
Evolution
Taxonomy
Natural Selection
Domestication
The Five Freedoms
5 essential requirements for ALL animals.
Provision of the 5 freedoms is allowing for
the underlying needs of an animal.
The Five Freedoms are now most commonly associated with UFAW
(Universities Federation for Animal Welfare), but were originally
produced from initial guideline from the Farm Animal Welfare Advisory
Committee (est. 1967, later to become the Farm Animal Welfare
Council in 1979) which recommended animals require the freedoms to:
"stand up, lie down, turn around, groom themselves and
stretch their limbs”
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Freedom from Hunger & Thirst
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Freedom from Pain, Injury & Disease
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Freedom from Fear & Distress
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Freedom from Discomfort
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Freedom to Exhibit Normal Behaviour
Evaluating 5 Freedoms
Freedom from Hunger and Thirst
No provision
of Freedom
Doing little
harm, but little
good
•Dehydrated
Optimal
Welfare
•Good quality balanced
diet appropriate to
specie and life stage
•Starved
•Malnourished
•Clean fresh water
available at all times
Poor quality/less
appropriate food
•Mechanism of
provision
Potentially prevent
freedom from pain,
injury and disease
Evaluating 5 Freedoms
Freedom from Hunger and Thirst
Optimal
Welfare
No provision
of Freedom
Over provision
of Freedom
Freedom from Pain, Injury
& Disease?
Freedom to exhibit normal
behaviour?
Slides of Images
where freedoms not provided
Why might we not provide the five
freedoms to animals?
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Ignorance
Space/Time/Money
Experience/Observation
Psychological/Sociological issue
Ignorance
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Not doing research
Trusting industry
Not getting from responsible breeder
Not educating themselves
Space, Time, Money
Changes in personal circumstances:
• Move of House
• New Job
• Loss of Job
• Illness in Family
• Using animals for
economic gain
Experience/Observation
Have seen others do it…think it is ok!
• TV
• Internet
• First Hand
Psychological/Sociological
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Personality
Personal Experience
Emotional Stressors (Illness, Grieve)
Peer pressure
Experimental
In appropriate relations
Abuse sufferers
Religion or culture
Trying to do good!
Animal Exploitation (for social gain)
What is not providing the five freedoms for
animals?
CRUELTY?
“The deliberate and malicious infliction of
mental or physical pain upon persons or animals.”
“the infliction of physical pain or death upon an
animal, when unnecessary for disciplinary,
instructional, or humanitarian purposes, such as
the release of the animal from incurable illness.”
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/cruelty
How cruel?
Physical Abuse
Farming
Animals in Circuses
Tail docking
Horse Riding
Hunting
Dog Training
Dog Racing
Fishing
Horse Racing
Pet Keeping
Dog Fighting
Vivisection
Breeding
Bull Fighting
Neutering