1	Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
2	What are animal rights and animal welfare? Define animal rights and animal welfare. Identify important persons and dates. Compare issues concerning animal rights and welfare.
3	Definitions Animal Rights: animals should not be exploited. Here, animals should not be used for food, clothing, entertainment, medical research, or product testing.
4	Definitions Animal Welfare: animals should be treated humanely. This includes proper housing, nutrition, disease prevention and treatment, responsible care, handling, and humane euthanasia or slaughter.
5	Definitions Animal welfare people believe animals can be used for human purposes as long as discomfort is kept to a minimum.
6	PETA Let’s look at the PETA website. Are they for Animal Rights or Animal Welfare?
7	Nebraska Cattlemen’s Association Animal Rights or Animal Welfare?
8	"Veterinarians?" Veterinarians? Farmers? YOU???
9	History 1828--First anti-cruelty law was passed by the New York legislature.
10	"“Every person who shall..." “Every person who shall maliciously kill, maim, or wound any horse, ox, or other cattle or sheep, belonging to another, or shall maliciously and cruelly beat or torture such animal, whether belonging to himself or another, shall upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor.”
11	America’s First Humane Society 1866--American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Looked after the welfare of disabled horses and mules and saved them from abandonment
12	Animal Transportation Act 1906--Protected animals traveling by rail. What about animals traveling by truck?
13	Humane Slaughtering Act 1958--humane handling of animals prior to and during slaughter
14	Current Issues Do animals have rights? Specieism--animals have the same rights as humans. Because they believe animals have nervous systems and can feel pain.
15	Current Issues Should animals be used for food? Confinement operations Veal
16	Current Issues Should animals be used for experimentation? Research in biomedical and behavior sciences. Testing of products for their safety. Education where animals are used for demonstrations and dissection.
17	Controversial Tests 1. Pound seizures. 2. Draize Eye Test and Skin Irritancy Test. 3. 6 million animals used in dissection. 4. Classical LD 50 Test. 5. Animals used in psychological research to discover the effects of pain, response to different stimuli.
18	Current Issues Should hunting and trapping be allowed?
19	What are animal rights and animal welfare? Define animal rights and animal welfare. Identify important persons and dates. Compare issues concerning animal rights and welfare.