Animal welfare

2012:88). However, as the Chinese economy growth over the last two decades, the consumption rates of shark fin are increasing (Fabinyi and Liu 2014:218). The cruel slaughter by fishermen has imperiled the populations of sharks and violated the rights of animal (Spiegel 2001:409). Many countries have advocated a ban on shark finning (Spiegel 2001:424). Therefore, this paper will describe how shark fin culture is interconnected with consumers and business, and how shark fin culture is impacted under the controversy

an infamous Orca from the popular animal theme park SeaWorld, has brought a substantial amount of attention to the topic of the dangers of keeping animals in captivity. Tilikum drowned and killed one of the trainers, Dawn Brancheau, during one of SeaWorld's shows, a behavior that has rarely been shown by these whales in the wild. Although this is a widely known example of the dangers of animals in captivity, there are many more examples which display why animals should not be held captive, whether

Of the various types of environmental and animal ethical violations, I believe factory farming to be the most egregious. The industrialized and corporate operated factory farms seem to only be concerned with maximizing their profits while having no care for the welfare of animals they are raising. I’ve seen many documentaries of hidden cameras entering these facilities which reveal the true treatment of the animals. The poor conditions include extreme confinement, such as battery cages which hens

I should not be giving money to the people that lock the animals up for our enjoyment. Seeing their sad faces always got to me, but I continue to go. I think the feeling of going and seeing exotic animals in the middle of the United States has always fascinated me. I have always loved animals and been eager to learn more about them. The only problem is they are being locked up and stared at all day for our enjoyment. In today's world animal captivity is a problem and it should be solved using humane

humane or inhumane place for animals to live. There are negative and positive ways animals are treated at zoos. For instance, the recent death of Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati zoo, has people viewing zoos differently than they use to. People have stated the lives of animals are secondary to the lives of people. Is the treatment of animals in zoos humane? The treatment of animals in zoos is humane because of their breeding programs, the health of the animals, and the enclosures including

marina; it is a prison for animals. Just for starters, Seaworld has robbed their captive Orcas, also known as

Role of Zoos in Conservation: Ethical Considerations As the animal rights movement has developed and grown substantially in recent years, there has been an increased focused on the welfare of captive animals. A popular institution that has received much attention for keeping animals captive is the zoo. Because of this focus, zoos have responded by publicizing their positive benefits for existence in order to justify keeping these animals on display. Since the term “zoo” can have a wide variety of

hunters as evil and morally corrupt as most animal rights activists will have you speculate? While most Americans hunt for food down the aisles of a grocery store, the issue of hunting has begun integrating a focus upon the plight of the hunted. With anti hunting rhetoric dominating the social landscape, for the average person, finding a morsel of impartial truth about hunting amongst a field of political agendas may seem daunting. Although many animal welfare rights activists doubt the practicality

everywhere. They laugh and smile as they watch the animals at the zoo sleep. What these children do not realize is that these animals are dying on the inside. Animals that live at the zoo are extremely depressed. These animals can suffer severe psychological disorders from being out of their natural environment. But others argue that keeping these animals in captivity will help keep endangered species alive. However, the disadvantages of keeping animals in captivity are becoming more and more serious

using the treatment of animals and their rights as an example. Brennan (1984) defined environmental ethics as the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to and also the value and moral status of the environment and its non-human contents. This essay will look at environmental ethics as a discipline, its development and challenges, the anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric approaches, the critiques of anthropocentrism, the use of animal rights as an example