Are Smelly Animals Happy Animals? Competing Definitions of Laboratory Animal Cruelty and Public Policy

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Julian McAllister Groves
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Laboratory Animal ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
Research Personnel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cruelty To Animals ◽  
Animal Care

AbstractRegulations surrounding laboratory animal care have tried to address aspects of an image of laboratory animal cruelty publicized by animal rights activists. This image of cruelty, however, is not consistent with the experiences of those charged with the day-to-day care of laboratory animals. This article examines the incongruities between the public image of cruelty to animals in laboratories as promoted by animal rights activists, and the experiences of laboratory animal care staff who apply and enforce laboratory animal care regulations. In doing so, the article illuminates why regulations surrounding laboratory animal care are difficult to comply with on the part of the policy enforcers, and are continuously contested by both animal rights activists and animal research personnel.

scholarly journals The Silver Spring monkey controversy: changing cultures of care in twentieth-century laboratory animal research

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-59
Author(s):  
Robert G. W. Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Laboratory Animal ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Macaque Monkeys ◽  
Silver Spring ◽  
Animal Care

Abstract In September 1981 police raided the Institute for Behavioral Research (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) seizing a number of macaque monkeys in response to accusations of animal cruelty against the neuroscientist Edward Taub. Over the following decade a volatile battle was fought as Taub, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the nascent animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), contested the claims and decided the monkeys’ fate. In spite of the monkeys having been surgically altered so as to be incapable of feeling pain a loose alliance of veterinarians, ethologists and animal advocates argued that they nonetheless suffered. Whilst this episode is often seen as a polarized confrontation between science and society, this paper argues that the Silver Spring monkey controversy saw two historically distinct cultures of laboratory animal care meet resulting in the development of new approaches to animal welfare in biomedical science.

scholarly journals Okrucieństwo wobec zwierząt z punktu widzenia psychologii i filozofii — zarys problemu

2017 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Joanna Helios ◽  
Wioletta Jedlecka
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
Cruelty To Animals ◽  
Society Today

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY — AN OUTLINE OF THE PROBLEMThe issue of animal rights is one of the most important problems facing society today. Topicality and relevance of topics covered in relation to the protection of animals are not in doubt, which still remind lively discussions on the rights of animals. In our opinion, the discourse about animals and their rights plays essential role in the issue of animal cruelty. This article focuses on the psychological and philosophical aspects of animal cruelty.

Culture of Care Enhancement in Egypt: The Impact of Laboratory Animal Science Training on Participants’ Attitudes

2021 ◽  
pp. 026119292110168
Author(s):  
Mohamed Hosney ◽  
Abeer M. Badr ◽  
Sohair R. Fahmy ◽  
Ahmed Afifi ◽  
Vera Baumans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Animal ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Positive Outcome ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
Culture Of Care ◽  
International Regulations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Animal Care ◽  
Laboratory Animal Science

Cairo University was the first academic institution in Egypt to establish an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), as mandated by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Animal-based research should be performed in accordance with international regulations to monitor the humane care and use of the laboratory animals. Until 2018, the formal training of researchers in the appropriate and correct methods of animal handling during sampling and administration, as well as their husbandry demands, was an uncommon practice in Egypt. In 2018, the Egyptian Association for Animal Research Advancement (EAARA) organised the first international course in laboratory animal science (LAS), in collaboration with Utrecht University (The Netherlands) and the Faculty of Science, Cairo University, to raise researchers’ awareness and increase their knowledge of the principles that govern the humane use and care of laboratory animals. A total of 26 researchers from a number of fields (veterinary medicine, dentistry, science, medicine, pharmacy and agriculture) enrolled in the course. In the responses to the post-course questionnaire, 24 (92.3%) participants stated that the principles of animal welfare (Three Rs) were well explained. In addition, 18 (69%) participants found that the course improved their skills in animal sampling and handling. Of the 26 participants, 22 (84.6%) became aware of their responsibility towards their experimental animals and agreed that the different methods of euthanasia were well explained. In conclusion, the general assessment of the course revealed a positive outcome regarding the culture of animal care; the course was repeated a year later, and several participants were enlisted as trainers in this second course.

scholarly journals ANCIENT RITUALS AND THEIR PLACE IN THE MODERN WORLD: CULTURE, MASCULINITY AND THE KILLING OF BULLS – PART TWO

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Allister Peté ◽  
Angela Diane Crocker
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The One ◽  
Cruelty To Animals

Each year in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a ceremony is held by the Zulu people in honour of the “first fruits”. A certain part of what is known as the Ukweshwama ceremony involves the ritual killing of a bull by young Zulu warriors with their bare hands. The ritual is opposed by certain animal rights campaigners, who believe it is cruel to the animal which is sacrificed. A highly polarized debate has arisen between those opposed to any form of cruelty to animals on the one hand, and those seeking to defend ancient cultural practices on the other. The purpose of this article is to explore whether or not ancient rituals such as the ritual bull-killing at theUkweshwama ceremony have a place in the modern world, and to interrogate the implications of the dispute which has arisen for the development of South Africa’s constitutional democracy. The article is in two parts. Part One provides a brief synopsis of the importance of cattle within traditional Zulu culture and traces the public controversy surrounding the bull-killing ritual in KwaZulu-Natal. It also examines the legal arguments put before court on the issue, and discusses the origins in antiquity of certain of the main myths and rituals concerning bulls and bullkilling. Part Two compares and contrasts the respective controversies surroundingthe Ukweshwama bull-killing ritual on the one hand, and Spanish bullfighting on the other. It also examines the wide range of positions adopted by philosophers and legal scholars vis-a-vis difficult questions of animal rights and cruelty to animals. The two sides of the argument are weighed up and tentative conclusions are reached.

scholarly journals ANCIENT RITUALS AND THEIR PLACE IN THE MODERN WORLD: CULTURE, MASCULINITY AND THE KILLING OF BULLS – PART ONE

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Allister Peté ◽  
Angela Diane Crocker
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The One ◽  
Cruelty To Animals

Each year in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a ceremony is held by the Zulu people in honour of the “first fruits”. A certain part of what is known as the Ukweshwama ceremony involves the ritual killing of a bull by young Zulu warriors with their bare hands. The ritual is opposed by certain animal rights campaigners, who believe it is cruel to the animal which is sacrificed. A highly polarized debate has arisen between those opposed to any form of cruelty to animals on the one hand, and those seeking to defend ancient cultural practices on the other. The purpose of this article is to explore whether or not ancient rituals such as the ritual bull-killing at theUkweshwama ceremony have a place in the modern world, and to interrogate the implications of the dispute which has arisen for the development of South Africa’s constitutional democracy. The article is in two parts. Part One provides a brief synopsis of the importance of cattle within traditional Zulu culture and traces the public controversy surrounding the bull-killing ritual in KwaZulu-Natal. It also examines the legal arguments put before court on the issue, and discusses the origins in antiquity of certain of the main myths and rituals concerning bulls and bullkilling. Part Two compares and contrasts the respective controversies surroundingthe Ukweshwama bull-killing ritual on the one hand, and Spanish bullfighting on the other. It also examines the wide range of positions adopted by philosophers and legal scholars vis-a-vis difficult questions of animal rights and cruelty to animals. The twosides of the argument are weighed up and tentative conclusions reached.

scholarly journals 343 Preparing a quality animal care and use protocol

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (Supplement_4) ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
Gary L Williams
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Pharmaceutical Chemical ◽  
The Public ◽  
Principal Investigators ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Regulatory Guidelines ◽  
Animal Care ◽  
Contact Personnel

Abstract Objectives in preparing a quality animal care and use protocol (AUP) revolve around the creation of a document that meets federal and institutional regulatory guidelines and that provides adequate detail for members of the institutional animal care and use committee to determine whether animal care and use procedures are justified and humane. Generally, either the Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals or Guide for the Care and Use of Agricultural Animals in Research and Teaching will serve as a guide for preparing AUPs. In addition, AUPs are publicly accessible; therefore, a section of the document must be written such that the lay public can easily read and understand what will happen to the animals and why. Well-written, thorough protocols must include: 1) USDA/Animal Welfare Act pain/distress category; 2) signed certification that the principal investigator, co-principal investigators and all personnel whose names appear on the AUP understand and will adhere to the requirements associated with the animal procedures to be employed and accept that they are under federal and institutional regulatory authority; 3) the work with animals is restricted specifically to what is approved in the official AUP. Specific work-related sections of the AUP should include 1) names and contact information of the principal and co-principal investigators and animal care contact personnel; 2) a lay summary that describes the purpose of the work and what specifically will happen to the animals; 3) detailed description of animal procedures and experimental design, including species, numbers, age and sex of animals; 4) animal procurement and maintenance information; 5) animal transfer and euthanasia procedures; 6) pharmaceutical/chemical agents to be administered; 7) qualifications and experience of all personnel; 8) emergency contacts and procedures; 9) complete description of surgical procedures; 10) arrangements for veterinary care.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF MINOR AS A STAGE OF PERSONALITY FORMATION WITH A VIOLENT ORIENTATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maksim Osipov
Keyword(s):  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
Cruelty To Animals ◽  
The Relationship

The article devoted to the study formations the identity of the criminal like. Animal cruelty is considered one of the violent stages of formations, directions personalities. The author analyzes the relationship between the stages of formation of the criminal’s personality in order to for the development of preventive measures.

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