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• What is welfare?• Well-being/Being well• Anthropomorphism• Perceptions & Opinions: Animal Welfare
– Personality– Experience– Knowledge– Gender– Religion & Culture– Environment
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”
Evaluating 5 Freedoms
Freedom from Hunger and Thirst
Optimal Welfare
No provision of Freedom
•Good quality balanced diet appropriate to specie and life stage
•Clean fresh water available at all times
•Mechanism of provision
•Dehydrated
•Starved
•MalnourishedPoor quality/less appropriate food
Doing little harm, but little good
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?
• Ignorance
• Space/Time/Money
• Experience/Observation
• Psychological/Sociological issue
Why might we not provide the five freedoms to animals?
Ignorance
• 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
Psychological/Sociological
• 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