Animal Studies: Let’s Talk About Animal Welfare and Liberation Issues in Childhood

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-326
Author(s):  
William Sarfo Ankomah
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Animal Suffering ◽  
Language Philosophy ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Children's Education

Abstract This article examined reasons why information pertaining to nonhuman animal welfare and liberation should be introduced during childhood. Studies indicate that animal-welfare activists’ and abolitionists’ efforts to date may be insufficient given the pervasive environmental destruction and ongoing animal suffering. Moreover, research reveals that education related to animal welfare and liberation is systematically excluded from children’s education, and they thus remain unaware of the sources and associated health hazards of meat they consume. Conversely, children’s knowledge about animal welfare increases when exposed to literature on the topic, which enables them to make informed choices regarding meat consumption. This paper draws on animal-welfare and liberation literature to argue that augmenting children’s knowledge about animal welfare and liberation can foster children’s understanding, language, philosophy, and ability to make informed choices about their relationship with animals and the environment in general.

scholarly journals Interventions to Reduce Meat Consumption by Appealing to Animal Welfare: Meta-Analysis and Evidence-Based Recommendations

Appetite ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 105277
Author(s):  
Maya B. Mathur ◽  
Jacob Peacock ◽  
David B. Reichling ◽  
Janice Nadler ◽  
Paul A. Bain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Evidence Based

Australian Consumers’ Knowledge and Concern for Animal Welfare in Food Production: Influences on Purchasing Intentions

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelia R. Cornish ◽  
Brayden Ashton ◽  
David Raubenheimer ◽  
Paul D. McGreevy
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Food Production ◽  
New South ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Food Of Animal Origin

AbstractConsumers are increasingly concerned about nonhuman animal welfare in food production and, as their awareness continues to rise, demand for welfare-friendly products is growing. The current study explores the Australian market for welfare-friendly food of animal origin by outlining and clarifying how consumers’ welfare concerns affect their purchasing decisions. It reports the findings of an Australian face-to-face survey of consumers’ knowledge of and attitudes to farm animal welfare and their reported purchasing of welfare-friendly animal-derived products. A novel aspect of this survey was its effort to establish consumers’ understanding of welfare-friendly labels, their motivation to purchase welfare-friendly products, and the barriers to doing so. The survey was deployed in four shopping districts in New South Wales, Australia, in 2016. Data were collected from 135 respondents, and the results are discussed below.

What Is More Important

2018 ◽  
pp. 148-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Bogueva ◽  
Dora Marinova
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Meat Eating ◽  
Traditional Masculinity

The unnecessary question what a man is without his masculinity, is deeply ingrained into the socially established norms of strength, power, virility and machoism. Although the traditional male masculinity stereotype and its association with meat consumption are still undisputable for many “real” men, there is indication about a shift toward a new modern evolutionary masculinity which reflects more sustainability values. The chapter explores this based on a survey of Sydney men. It reveals the influence of new factors, such as environmental, health and animal welfare concerns, which shape the concept of the masculine. Meat-eating men will experience increasing pressure to defend their traditional masculinity. The Sydney study also explores the factors likely to influence Australian men to replace a meat-centred diet with more plant-based alternatives.

English and Mexican Dogs: Spectres of Traumatic Pasts in Virginia Woolf’s Flush and MarÍa Luisa Puga’s Las Razones Del Lago

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-281
Author(s):  
Lourdes Parra-Lazcano
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Stray Dogs ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Past Experiences

This chapter offers a comparative analysis of the English Virginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography (1933) and the Mexican María Luisa Puga’s Las razones del lago [The Reasons of the Lake] (1991). It aligns the spectre of the traumatic past experienced by the dog Flush with those of the dogs Novela [Novel] and Relato [Story], based on their differing social and cultural contexts. The first section introduces the notion of spectres of traumatic past in nonhuman animal studies. The second establishes a comparison between Flush as a pet and Novela and Relato as semi-stray dogs to show how in each story a traumatic past of confinement has impacted the dogs’ lives. The third section discusses how the dogs’ spectres are associated with their violent past experiences, and the chapter concludes by addressing the human-animal empathy between these dogs and the voices of the writers.

Political conservatism and the exploitation of nonhuman animals: An application of system justification theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 858-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Hoffarth ◽  
Flávio Azevedo ◽  
John T. Jost
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Social Dominance Orientation ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Animal Suffering ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
System Justification Theory ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Political Conservatism ◽  
Welfare Attitudes

Many people in Western societies tolerate the mistreatment of nonhuman animals, despite obvious ethical concerns about the injustice of animal suffering and exploitation. In three studies, we applied system justification theory to examine the ideological basis of human–animal relations. In Studies 1a and 1b, we showed in both a large convenience sample ( N = 2,119) and a nationally representative sample in the US ( N = 1,500) that economic system justification uniquely explained the relationship between political conservatism and animal welfare attitudes even after adjusting for social dominance orientation. In Study 2, we replicated and extended these findings using more elaborate measures of animal welfare attitudes in the context of an MTurk sample of U.S. respondents ( N = 395). Specifically, we found that conservatism was associated with less support for animal welfare and greater endorsement of speciesism (the belief that humans are morally superior to nonhuman animals) and that individual differences in economic system justification mediated these associations. We discuss several ways in which system justification theory may inform interventions designed to promote support for animal welfare in society at large.

scholarly journals Be Gentle to Them: Animal Welfare and the Protection of Draft Animals in the Ottoman Fatwā Literature and Legislation

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 538
Author(s):  
Necmettin Kızılkaya
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Animal Protection ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The Subject

Animal studies in the Islamic context have greatly increased in number in recent years. These studies mostly examine the subject of animal treatment through the two main sources of Islam, namely, the Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad. Some studies that go beyond this examine the subject of animal treatment through the texts of various disciplines, especially that of Islamic jurisprudence and law. Although these two research approaches draw a picture on the subject of animal treatment, it is still not a full one. Other sources, such as fatwā books and archive documents, should be used to fill in the gaps. By incorporating these into the pool of research, we will be better enabled to understand how the principles expressed in the main sources of Islam are reflected in daily life. In this article, I shall examine animal welfare and animal protection in the Ottoman context based on the fatāwā of Shaykh al-Islām Ebū’s-Suʿūd Efendi and archival documents.

scholarly journals Nonhuman Animal Experiments in the European Community: Human Values and Rational Choice

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Peggs
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
European Community ◽  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn 2008, the European Community (EC) adopted a Proposal to revise the EC Directive on nonhuman animal experiments, with the aim of improving the welfare of the nonhuman animals used in experiments. An Impact Assessment, which gauges the likely economic and scientific effects of future changes, as well as the effects on nonhuman animal welfare, informs the Proposal. By using a discourse analytical approach, this paper examines the Directive, the Impact Assessment and the Proposal to reflect critically upon assumptions about the morality of nonhuman animal experiments. Because nonhuman animal welfare is so prominent in the Proposal, it appears that the EC position advances beyond human self-interest (orthodox rational choice) as the sole motivator for such experiments, to ethical questions about the welfare of nonhuman animals (which can be better explained by a multidimensional approach to rational choice). In examining this contention, this paper concludes that, even given concerns about nonhuman animal welfare, nonhuman animal experimentation in the EC is firmly grounded in a morality that focuses on human benefit goals rather than on the wider moral issues associated with the means of achieving such goals.

What Can a Farm Animal Biography Accomplish? The Case of Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Tsovel
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Farm Animal ◽  
Emotional Attachment ◽  
Young Calf ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

AbstractAgricultural reports and guides, nonhuman animal welfare studies, and animal rights reports attempt to document and convey the condition of nonhuman animals in agriculture. These disciplines tend to resist a prolonged and methodically versatile examination of individual animals. In his pioneer work, Lovenheim (2002), The author produced such a biographical documentation of calves in the dairy and meat industries. He provided an exceptionally prolonged and detailed tracing of their lives as individuals, establishing an emotional attachment in both documenter and reader. Yet, sentiments for the farmers, typical urban conceptions of communication with nonhuman animals, and difficulties in obtaining the relevant information limit Lovenheim's success and imply similar difficulties in other cases.

Deprivation as Un-Experienced Harm?

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 469-486
Author(s):  
Külli Keerus ◽  
Mickey Gjerris ◽  
Helena Röcklinsberg
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Animal Welfare Science ◽  
Direct Duty ◽  
Tom Regan

AbstractTom Regan encapsulated his principle of harm as a prima facie direct duty not to harm experiencing subjects of a life. However, his consideration of harm as deprivation, one example of which is loss of freedom, can easily be interpreted as a harm, which may not be experienced by its subject. This creates a gap between Regan’s criterion for moral status and his account of what our duties are. However, in comparison with three basic paradigms of welfare known in nonhuman animal welfare science, Regan’s understanding coheres with a modified version of a feelings-based paradigm: not only the immediate feelings of satisfaction, but also future opportunities to have such feelings, must be taken into account. Such an interpretation is compatible with Regan’s understanding of harm as deprivation. The potential source of confusion, however, lies in Regan’s own possible argumentative mistakes.

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