Portal:Animal rights and welfare
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Animal rights and animal welfare address different but related questions about human–animal relationships. Animal rights concerns animals' moral standing and the protections owed to them. Animal welfare concerns their well-being, including how it is assessed and affected by their treatment and living conditions.
The subjects intersect in animal ethics, science, law and animal protection. They are not interchangeable: improving welfare does not necessarily imply opposition to human use of animals. This portal introduces both fields and the debates within and between them.
Start here: Animal rights · Animal welfare · Animal ethics · Animal rights movement · Animal welfare science
Animal rights
[edit]Explore philosophical arguments about animals' rights and moral status, the animal rights movement, and debates about human uses of animals.
- Ideas and arguments: Animal rights · Speciesism · Argument from marginal cases
- Movement and practices: Animal rights movement · Veganism · Vegetarianism
- People: Animal rights scholars · Animal rights activists
- Selected reading: An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory · Animal Rights Without Liberation
Animal welfare
[edit]Explore the scientific assessment of animals' well-being and the factors affecting their lives, both in human care and in the wild.
- Science and assessment: Animal welfare science · Pain in animals · Animal cognition
- Principles and practice: Five Freedoms · Behavioral enrichment · Animal sanctuary
- People: Donald Broom · Marian Stamp Dawkins · Temple Grandin
- Selected reading: Animal welfare
Shared topics
[edit]- Ethics and moral status: Animal ethics · Wild animal suffering
- History: Timeline of animal welfare and rights · Brown Dog affair
- Law and politics: Animal law · Animal rights by country or territory · Political Animals and Animal Politics
- Human–animal relationships: Animal testing · Intensive animal farming · Hare coursing
Selected article
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Between 1903 and 1910, a dispute over an experiment on a dog became a public controversy in Britain. Campaigners against vivisection challenged the conduct of the experiment; physiologist William Bayliss disputed their allegations and won a libel action. A memorial erected in Battersea became a focus for demonstrations and clashes involving medical students, campaigners and police. The original statue was removed in 1910, and a replacement was installed in 1985.
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[edit]Animal rights · Animal welfare · Animal rights movement · Animal rights scholars · Animal rights activists · Animal testing
Related portals and participation
[edit]Related portals: Animals · Philosophy · Veganism and vegetarianism
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