Animal Welfare(revision)

References:
Animal Welfare(n.d.).Retrieved January 10, 2009, from Wikipedia　http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare


Since my topic is started from movie dogs and then abandoned animals (usually dogs) animal. There must have some kind of relations to animal welfare. So now, I would introduce the origins of the development of animal welfare. “Animal welfare refers to the viewpoint that it is morally acceptable for humans to use nonhuman animals for food, in animal research, as clothing, and in entertainment, so long as unnecessary suffering is avoided. The position is contrasted with the animal rights position, which holds that other animals should not be used by, or regarded as the property of humans.” Concerning the misuse of animal, people in ancient time used them for experiment in cruel ways. As time goes by, more and more people get the ideas that animals are also creatures. They may have feelings. As in the context mentions, there are five freedom of animals that latter developed. They are Freedom from thirst and hunger, Freedom from discomfort, Freedom from pain, injury and disease, Freedom to express normal behavior, and Freedom from fear and distress. But there was a time that people denied the thing that animals could feel. Another difference is Region. People in different areas have different attitude toward animal welfare. For example, British people avoid pain even if this means killing the animals. While in countryside, they regard animals as a more complicated element of their lives, because they may use animal as tools to do field work or hunting.