Noah school
| Why is animal welfare education important |
it promotes kindness and responsible attitude towards animals and environment
it creates awareness in young people of the needs of animals
it creates respect for animals
it develops responsibility and a duty of care towards animals
it encourages active role in the improvement of the life of animals
it shapes moral values
| Animal welfare |
Farm Animal Welfare Council, UK
(FAWC) has developed the
concept of FIVE FREEDOMS which form the
basis for animal welfare:
Freedom from HUNGER and
THIRST
by ready acceess to
fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigour.
Freedom from
DISCOMFORT
by providing
and appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area.
Freedom from PAIN, INJURY
and DISEASE
by prevention or
rapid diagnosis and treatment.
Freedom from FEAR and
DISTRESS
by ensuring
conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering.
Freedom to express NORMAL BEHAVIOUR
by providing sufficient space, proper
facilities and company of the animals` own kind.
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals... We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of
taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the
animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than
ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we
have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not
brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves
in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of
the earth.
Henry Beston (1928)