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Inadequate animal welfare

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Name(s):

Lack of concern for animal welfare

Lack of care for animals

Claim

Inadequate action is taken against undue suffering caused to animals. Lack of animal welfare encompasses abusive methods in factory farming, cruel methods of slaughtering for meat, inhumane conditions during transport, inhumane killing of stray and unwanted animals, inhumane treatment of laboratory animals, abusive commercial exploitation of non-food animals, cruel sports, abuse of animals used for transport, inadequate zoo facilities, and abuse in control of wild animal populations.

Broader

Lack of care

Narrower

Cruel sports

Lack of animal shelters

Maltreatment of zoo animals

Inadequate animal husbandry

Insufficient water for livestock

Inhumane killing of stray animals

Unjustified culling of wild animals

Restriction of wild animal range size

Inadequate legislation for animal welfare

Cruelty to livestock during transportation

Insanitary penning conditions as factor in animal diseases

Aggravates

Animal injuries

Animal extinction

Animal road deaths

Maltreatment of animals

Denial to animals of the right to dignity

Unethical practices with domesticated animals

Death and disability from inhumane confinement

Denial to animals of the right to the attention, care and protection of humankind

Aggravated by

Excessive stray animal populations

Impaired human empathy toward animals

Decreasing genetic diversity of animals

Strategy(ies)

Improving animal welfare

Abstaining from concern for animal welfare

Raising issues of animal welfare

Value(s)

Reference(s)

Hood, D E and Tarrant, P V: Problem of Dark Cutting in Beef: seminar in the EEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Animal Welfare held in Brussels, Belgium, 1980

Type

(D) Detailed problems

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