AQA RELIGIOUS STUDIES UNIT 2 ANIMAL RIGHTS
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- Created on: 12-04-16 15:13
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- Animal Rights
- Why are animals kept in zoos?
- They're dangerous
- Preserve species
- Help understand them
- Wearing Animal Fur
- For wearing Fur
- keeps people warm
- no different to eating meat
- traditional / cultural
- some are bred for their fur
- dominonship
- Against wearing fur
- Principle of anisma
- often threatened species
- often results with poaching
- fake fur is just as good
- respect for created life
- For wearing Fur
- Animal Uses
- pets
- e.g dogs and cats
- workers
- guide dogs, farm horses
- providers
- chicken eggs, cows milk
- sport
- bullfighting, horse racing
- Dog fighting is illegal in the UK but in other countries it is used for entertainment
- bullfighting, horse racing
- exercise
- horses and dogs
- experimenting
- medicine and cosmetic products
- pets
- Ivory Trade: the sale of ivory from elephant or rhino tusks which is often illegal.
- Vegan: someone who doesn't use animal products or wear fur etc
- Organisations that monitor animal welfare
- RSPCA
- WWF
- Purpose of animal welfare groups
- Raise public awareness
- Monitor animal welfare
- Petition to governments
- UK LAWS ON ANIMALS
- some animals can't be kept as pets
- can't neglect an animal
- testing for cosmetics is banned
- dog fighting + fox hunting are illegal
- pets have rights given by welfare act
- Quakers: a Christian denomination who are all pacifists
- Stewardship: the duty that God gave humans to care for the world
- Sanctity of Life: the idea that life is a special gift from God
- Factory Farming: intensive farming where animals are cooped up and not allowed to behave naturally
- Vegetarian: doesn't eat meat
- RELIGIOUS VIEWS
- Quakers believe animals are equal to humans
- Roman Catholics believe that animals don't have rights but should be cared for by humans
- Islam believes that animal experimentation should only be done for medicinal purpose and should NOT be repeated - they believe animals have feelings and thoughts
- Buddhists believe human & animal equality doesn't exist as to become an animal they would've reincarnated back because of a bad past life
- Fur trade: animals killed for their fur for clothing
- ANIMALS FOR FOOD
- They are strictly vegan/vegetarian because they believe to eat meat is killing an animal and therefore killing a soul.
- Islam believe it is okay to eat animals for food as long as it is killed in a Halal way
- Christians believe it is okay to eat meat as long as they have a quick and painful death
- ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
- ARGUMENTS FOR
- They further science
- Not enough human volunteers
- Improve life of millions of people
- Animals are often well cared for
- ARGUMENTS AGAINST
- Animals are biologically different to humans
- Animals can't communicate pain
- Animals aren't able to stop humans from testing on them
- Animals suffer from being treated cruelly
- Most Christians accept it as it finds cures to diseases
- However they can see it as 'playing with God'
- Caging an animal is forbidden in Islam
- ARGUMENTS FOR
- PETA: a non-religious group that defends animal rights - they protest and campaign for animals and encourage the government and public to do more
- Why aren't animals the same as humans?
- Humans are top of the evolution chain
- Interdependence
- We need animals for food/work
- World would be dull without animals
- Approaches to campaigning for animal rights
- Gentle Approaches
- Candlelit Vigils
- Letters to MPs
- Protest marches
- Violent Approaches
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- Breaking into labs
- Accusing people
- Gentle Approaches
- Why are animals kept in zoos?
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