The Animal Welfare Act (AWA)

(Subpoint) The federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA), passed in 1966, makes it legal to have puppy mills through its vague standards. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the agency responsible for overseeing the commercial dog breeding industry and enforcing the AWA.

The court will likely find that Rocco biting Jeff on Ava’s property does not make Ava the owner of Rocco under the Illinois Animal Control Act. In the Illinois Animal Control Act, a dog owner can be held liable for injuries if the dog attacks when not provoked and the injured was peacefully and lawfully on the premises. 510 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 5/16 (LexisNexis, Lexis Advance through Pub. Act. 99-622, except for portions of Pub. Act. 99-576, Pub. Act. 99-585, Pub. Act. 99-604, and Pub. Act. 99-609 of the 2016 Reg. Legis. Sess.). According to the statue, “owner means any person having a right of property in an animal, or keeps or harbors an animal, or who has it in his care, or acts as its custodian, or knowingly permits a dog to remain on any premises occupied by him or her”. 510 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 5/2.16 (LexisNexis, Lexis Advance through Pub. Act. 99-904, except for portions of Pub. Act. 99-576, 585, 604, 622, 642, 648, 669, 674, 703, 711, 719, 720, 732, 744, 757, 758, 763, 773, 775, 788, 796, 801, 802, 817, 822, 841, 848, 860, 864, 874, 876, 881, 889, 892, 893, 894, and 901 of the 2016 Reg. Legis. Sess.). To be determined to be the owner by the jury, the person needs to provide some degree of care or custody or voluntarily assume care or control or have property interest in the animal. VanPlew v. Riccio, 739 N.E.2d 1023, 1026 (Ill. App. Ct. 2000); Docherty v. Sadler, 689 N.E.2d 332, 334 (Ill. App. Ct. 1997); Goennenwein by Goennenwein v. Rasof, 695 N.E.2d 541,

According to Gallup.com a third of Americans want animals to have the same rights as people. The Animal Bill of Right implies that animals have the right to be free from exploitation and cruelty, It also prohibits laboratory animals to be used for research. Animals will also have healthy diets and medical care. It will also provide them with an environment that satisfies their needs. I do not believe we need a Bill of Rights for animals. This would not only be extreme but it will affect human culture, medical research, and cost of food

Every life has a choice. Every choice has a reason. Every reason has a purpose. All answers come into place. Why? Now that is the question people ask themselves on a daily basis when trying to find human cures or treatments. Why are the experiments having this sort of effect? Why have the experiment subject’s internal organs disintegrated? Nevertheless, people assume test subjects to be volunteering humans, the homeless, or desperate aliens who are willing to do anything to cross the border or country. In reality, animals [mainly cats, dogs, and mice] are the ones that endure experimentation for the future of mankind. Even though animal testing helped discover treatments for aggressive diseases and safely determined the outcome of mankind, it still sidesteps the fact that animals are their own being, it violates the Animal Welfare Act of 1970, the discovery of humane methods shows it to be beneficial, and the test results will soon become void for the benefit of mankind.

imal abuse has been an issue since the 12th century when dogs and cats were commonly found roaming the streets. Today it has become an ever growing issue which ranges from household pets to farm animals such as cows, chickens, horses. Animal abuse also is not just in America, such as bullfighting in Spain which began many centuries ago as a sacrifice to the gods. Is still practiced today as a form of entertainment. This kind of behavior does not seem right in our everyday life and just seems wrong because animals should be treated with kindness and not hatred.

For many years there has been an ongoing debate on whether or not animals should be given rights, even there own bill of rights. Some who are against the animal bill of rights argue that testing products on animals is important to the safety of humans. Others who want the new bill of rights claim that animals have feelings and that science is treating them inhumanely. Animal activists also add that animals are intelligent beings and are aware of how they are treated. Based on science proving animal activists correct on many of their points, this calls for a new bill of rights, in the United States, especially written for the protection and care of wild and domestic animals.

There should not be an amendment to the constitution granting animals rights. The reason I feel there should not be any amendment is because they provide us with food, give us resources that we use daily and we also get long lasting clothes from using their fur or flesh. But I do believe there should be laws on how to properly kill animals we consume or use for their fur, flesh or meat.

Animals are found throughout lives of humans. As companions, entertainment, test subjects and food, animals serve vital roles throughout our lives.The Animal Bill of Rights, through the Animal Legal Defense Fund, attempts to defend the basic legal rights of all animals. However, to weigh the need for such an act, one must compare the suffering of animals to the benefits such suffering gives to humankind. It’s much more important to highlight the crucial medical advances that lab animals have provided over the injustices they may suffer, but this suffering can not and should not be ignored. It is with measure that we do not enact a bill of rights for animals, however we bring new awareness of animal research and the ethical treatment of all

The Protection of Animals Act 1911 and the Animal Welfare Act 2006 are laws that all animal establishments must abide by in order to successfully and humanly accommodate and care for their animals. However, with regards to zoos and wildlife parks, there are numerous pieces of legislation that are specific to the organisations for the welfare of their captive

Best Friends opposes breed-discriminatory legislation (also called breed-specific legislation, BSL), which arbitrarily targets particular breeds. Breed-discriminatory laws are not only ineffective at improving community safety, they are extremely expensive to enforce and deplete needed resources from animal control. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (click above for direct link) A CDC study on fatal dog bites lists the breeds involved in fatal attacks over 20 years (Breeds of dogs involved in fatal human attacks in the United States between 1979 and 1998). It does not identify specific breeds that are most likely to bite or kill, and thus is not appropriate for policy-making decisions related to the topic. Each year, 4.7

The Animal Bill of Rights is meant to protect animals that don’t have legal protection. There are laws that protect some of the animals, but are often insufficient and full of loopholes. In this society we have many people who think the total opposite of defending the animals. It may be because of selfish thinking. Sometimes one might think, it is needed for them to survive or because they want to be able to show their children the animals in person at zoos. Now, the question is, if animals need a Bill of Rights? I strongly believe that they do need a Bill of Rights because there are animals on the day-to-day basis that are being mistreated and abused by humans that don’t care for them. We need the Bill of Rights because it will give a better voice to the animals being treated as if they were nothing in this world. I agree with what the source indicated “ Animals in the U.S. are considered just “property” by law, even though they are living, feeling beings”. If they were not considered “property” humans wouldn’t be harming these animals and would rather be caring or not giving them much attention if they aren’t an animal enthusiast.

Animals Rights is a big discussion that has been around for while. Many argue since animals aren’t human, it doesn’t matter how they are treated or taken care of. There are others that do care how our animals are treated and taken care of. Animal rights are rights believed to belong to animals to live free from use in medical research, hunting, and other services to humans. This topic has been around for a while but has become more absolute (Environmental Encyclopedia, Opposing Viewpoint). Animal rights involves personal, social, legal, religious, cultural values, belief, and decisions. This alone causes the viewpoint to vary based on many factors. Add in the many benefits animals have for humans and the lines are blurred further. Animals should be treated humanely as they are living breathing beings and are aware of their lives. Animals have similar levels of biological complexity, they make conscious choices, and they are conscious and aware they exist.

The study of good and bad, right and wrong, moral principles or value held by a person or society, promoting human welfare, maximizing freedom minimizing pain and suffering is called ethics. The discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings and also the value and moral status of the environment and its non-human contents is called environmental ethics. It considers the ethical relationship between the humans and the environment. Animal and animal rights are the highlighted topic in the environmental ethics.

can be improved upon. The Animal Welfare act encompasses only a handful of species. It excludes cold-blooded animals, as well as farmed animals raised for food and fiber or used in agricultural research (Cows, pigs, etc.). Neavs.org concludes, “less than 10% of animals in labs are covered by the AWA (dogs, cats, nonhuman primates—such as chimpanzees and monkeys—guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, and other warm-blooded animals), the law sets minimum standards for housing, feeding, handling, veterinary care, and for some species like chimpanzees, their psychological well-being.”. Many are deceived by this act thinking that all animals are given medical care and attention in laboratories but that is unquestionably false as it is evident that more

As of 2018, each family has to produce one child to scientific research with all rights given up for researchers to imprison the child for the duration of its life until death, to improve Maybelline’s foundation line. This theoretical idea would be appalling, unethical and horrific. The thought of torturing a human for its entire life to test cosmetic products is unthinkable and most would laugh at this unrealistic idea. I do not understand how researchers advocate that animals are like us and therefore this enables brands to ensure safety of product before human use from testing them first on animals. However when asked why animals are treated in such cruel ways with no consideration to the excruciating pain caused the answer is because animals are not like us. So which is it? Animals are like us or are they not. Saying animals do not have feelings like humans is the greatest statement of ignorance shown by many individuals ignoring this cruelty. The love that animals show humans is like no other and we should respect these beautiful creatures.