By Catharine Grant
ISBN-10: 1906523509
ISBN-13: 9781906523503
This day animals want maintaining greater than ever. a few are bred for laboratories, for zoos or looking. Others are reared intensively on farms. and people out within the wild are wasting their habitats to logging and oil exploration. This No-Nonsense consultant explains the most important matters, charts the expansion of the animal rights circulation and appears on the welfare and security legislation. it is also a realistic day by day advisor to what you are able to do to minimise exploitation.
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8 Ringling Brothers has ‘more than 100 times… been cited by USDA for deficiencies in animals’ care’. ’13 Because death, injury and severe deprivation are standard in circuses that use animals, both welfare and AR groups are working hard to ban such acts from traveling circuses. Some circuses share this view. Pierre Parisien, artistic director of the Cirque du Soleil, said, ‘We will never have animals in our shows. ’ Marine parks In many ways, marine parks are similar to circuses. 14 Like circus animals, dolphins and orcas Circus acts Countries that have banned circus animal acts: Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland Countries where animal acts are banned in some states/provinces and municipalities: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, UK (over 200 municipalities), US.
Millions of animals have died because they were forced to eat meat, when they are naturally vegetarian. FMD existed before the advent of factory farming. However, these days it flourishes in intensive conditions because it can be transmitted through the air, and factory farm warehouses are overcrowded and generally poorly ventilated. In 1998 the UN warned that Europe was likely to have an outbreak of the disease because of large-scale animal movement and overcrowding. It declared that ‘the globalization and intensification of agriculture has led to an increased risk and 32 production in North America, Europe and Japan, it has recently begun to take root in other parts of the world – particularly in the former Soviet Union, Mexico, Brazil, India, China, Thailand and the Philippines.
18 First of all, many animals don’t breed successfully in captivity. Secondly, zoo animals are rarely equipped to survive in the wild – often they fail 60 to develop the necessary skills and have little resistance to common diseases. 19 Some critics argue that the billions of dollars spent on zoos would be better spent protecting animals in the wild. 19 If money spent on captive breeding were put into habitat protection, endangered species would have a much better chance of surviving in the long term.
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