386 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ANIMALAGRICULTURE STUDY QUESTIONS 1. How would you de

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386 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ANIMALAGRICULTURE STUDY QUESTIONS 1. How would you define bioethics? 2. Is the raising, killing, and eating of other sentient animals by humans an ethical or moral issue, or both? 3. What is sentience? 4. Suppose you have a calf with a fatal illness, such as BD (bovine viral diarrhea). The animal doesn't look too bad yet, but you are certain a months. Which of the following scenarios would you think would be the best way of dealing with the situation. take it as soon as possible to a livestock auction and sell it, (b) let die naturally, (c) kill it humanely, (d) take it a vet erinarian for possible treatment or to be euthanized? 5. Is it ethical to slaughter animals in view of other animals, or does it not matter because the others a just going to die anyway? Can the other animals (eg, cat tle) perceive impending death-do they really know what's about to happen to them? Even if they do, does it matter? 6. Why is a human life more valuable than that of a chimpanzee? which life is more valuable: that of a chimpanzee or a cow? Why? 7. What is an ethologist? 8. It is obvious that animals feel pain when being dehorned, branded, or castrated. Does it matter if they experience pain? What alternatives are there to reduce or eliminate this type of painful experience? 9. What is an aviary system for housing laying hens? 10. What is the difference between the animal welfare movement and the animal rights movement? What is an animal rights extremist? 11. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Peter Rabbit, and Bambi are examples of anthro- pomorphism. What is the role of anthropomorphism in animal welfare and an imal rights debates? 12. Do animals have any rights at all? If so, what are they? 13. Do farm animals differ in intelligence? If so, does it matter? Explain. 14. When ducks are raised for meat, should they have access to water for swimming? Defend your answer.

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1. Bioethics is defined as the study of ethical issues relating to biology and medical sciences

3. The ability to feel and experience subjectively is called sentience.

5. Yes it’s not ethical because studies have shown that animals especially farm animal like cattle are intelligent up to some extent. They can actually perceive the environment in which they are in and understand the changes.

7. Ethologist tries to understand the actual reasons behind different animal behaviour. In other words it the study of animal behaviour.

9. A good aviary system for laying hens involve vital installations like feeding and drinking systems, laying nests, manure removal solutions, climate control systems, efficient lighting system, exhaust air treatment and residue treatment and also involve enriched colony system.

11. Research has shown that people show more affinity towards non human subjects that exhibit human like qualities. Studies show that subjects or a group of people who are exposed to anthropomorphism are most likely to adopt a pet or are more interested in animal welfare and adopting a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle. So from such examples we can conclude that anthropomorphism promotes animal welfare.

13. Farm animals are considered as dumb and unintelligent in the past, but that is not the case now. They are also intelligent. There is evidence that pigs are as smart and sociable as dogs. Research now proves that farm animals are intelligent and emotionally complex beings. Research has shown that sheep can remember faces, cows on the other hand can respond to intellectual challenges.

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