Animal Rights or Animal Welfare?

[Mendel's Balls]

Do you support animal rights or animal welfare?

[Nate]

excuse my ignorance, can you please explain what Animal Welfare is?

[SatanicIntention]

Animal Welfare. IMO, if they are taken care of properly, provided with good quality food, shelter, are protected from internal/external parasites, and are a well-adjusted, balanced animal(balanced mentally-Watch Cesar Milan..), then I have done my job as a Vet Tech by educating owners.

Animals do have a right to be provided all of those things I listed above, but the majority aren't. I just want to make sure they are well taken care of, and that's all I ask.

[Mendel's Balls]

excuse my ignorance, can you please explain what Animal Welfare is?

This link should help clarify......

http://www.fbresearch.org/AnimalActi...areVRights.htm

Basically, animal welfare means taking care of animals properly-making sure they have a good, overall quality of life. (though sometimes it means taking care of animals for our purposes-pets, biomedical research, etc)

Animal rights gives the same rights that human have to animals.

[Sapphire7]

Do you support animal rights or animal welfare?

Umm... why not both? I support animal rights, and their welfare.

Edit: I DO NOT agree with animal testings for any kind what so ever! I DO NOT think a life should be wasted for humans desire to learn more. We can COPY animal flesh and DNA and make an axact duplicate of it, why do it on animals any more? IMO They shouldnt suffer. A life is a life and a soul no matter what! When we die, we are souls.. we do not take our physical being with us.. so no we are not humans in the other world after dath or that'd mean we'd taken our physical form with us and that'd mean we could take other forms and things with us.. like I aid before a soul is a soul, a life is a life. We should all be treated with respect and love that we all so need.

[Mendel's Balls]

Umm... why not both? I support animal rights, and their welfare.

I thought about having that as an option....but they really arent the same thing. You can't own a human (it's called slavery).....if you are really for animal rights your against pet ownership ( because they have the same rights as we do).

[recycling goddess]

me too. i don't understand the difference. it's like saying do you believe that children have the right to have a voice or do they deserve to have food? i think they need both.

[Mendel's Balls]

me too. i don't understand the difference. it's like saying do you believe that children have the right to have a voice or do they deserve to have food? i think they need both.

If you would like to add this option feel free to do so....I'm not sure if you have this power.

But please do so if you do to represent your view.

[Sapphire7]

Well I sort of disagree with "owning" pets. They sort of own me. I treat my animals as humans. As equals.. IMO God put them on earth to keep Adam company back in the Garden of Eden, and thats why we have them, they company us. And I am for their rights, they shouldnt be abused or treated as slaves, but as equals, and companions, as friends. I am all for their welfare and their health.. (read other edited post

[Mendel's Balls]

Umm... why not both? I support animal rights, and their welfare.

Edit: I DO NOT agree with animal testings for any kind what so ever! I DO NOT think a life should be wasted for humans desire to learn more. We can COPY animal flesh and DNA and make an axact duplicate of it, why do it on animals any more?

But we cant make a whole kidney organ and study how a drug interacts with a whole kidney (yet). Cells in culture act very differently than those within an organism.