Animal welfare : ressources en langue anglaise
Vidéos
Farm animals & us (1)
A thought-provoking and empathy-raising video, guaranteed to promote interest in and stimulate discussion about farm animal welfare. Pigs operate computers and rescue a drowning child; chickens learn from watching TV; teenagers role-play the lives of intensively reared broiler chickens. Intensive and free-range farming systems are compared – the viewer is left to make a choice.
(19 minutes, for children aged 10-15)
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Farm animals & us (2) : feeding the world without cruelty to the animals
This thought-provoking new video asks how we can reconcile our needs for food and for efficient food production with our responsibility to keep animals in conditions which meet their own needs and prevent avoidable suffering.
The film also questions the sentiency of farm animals – their intelligence, emotional lives and their capacity for happiness and suffering. It finally examines the economics of free-range versus intensive production and the practicalities of feeding the world. The viewer is left to decide what choices should be made about the future of animal farming in the 21st century.
(video aimed at students aged 16 and upwards).
For more resources in English on Animal welfare, please visit CIWF Trust's Education website here
The Meatrix
The Meatrix is a humorous 4-minute Flash animation that spoofs the Matrix films and highlights the problems of factory farming. Instead of Keanu Reeves, the Meatrix stars a young pig, Leo, who lives on a pleasant family farm ... so he thinks. Leo is approached by a trenchcoat-clad cow, Moopheus, who shows him the ugly truth about agribusiness…(The film has won several awards, at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and the Media That Matters Film Festival).
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Textes
Farm animals, by Jane Goodal
World famous primatologist and United Nations messenger of peace, Dr Jane Goodal speaks of the ethical and environmental issues raised by the intensive farming of sentient beings.
This text is an abstract from Animals, Ethics & Trade (Earthscan, 2006).
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Animal rights groups pick up momentum
The growing influence of animal rights activists increasingly is affecting daily life, touching everything from the foods Americans eat to what they study in law school.
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Rethinking the meat guzzler (New York Times, jan 2008)
A sea change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store — something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn‘t oil.
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Nine poultry farmers in India commit suicide after bird flu hits business (13/04/2006)
This article shows the disastrous psychological and economical consequences of bird flu for small poultry farmers in India, so far the worst affected poultry industry in the world.
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Animal rights marchers protest against live calf exports
The ban on exporting British beef brought in ten years ago to stop the spread of mad cow disease has been lifted in May (2006) causing a protest of several hundred people concerned about the bad conditions in which calves are transported and reared in the other countries of Europe.
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Is the Public Ready to Roast the Meat Industry ?
A survey shows that the American public feels really concerned about the welfare of farm animals, and expects corporations to change the way these animals are treated.
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AOL hits “Delete†on battery cages
AOL has decided to discontinue the use of eggs from birds raised in battery cages in all its corporate dining facilities, hence providing improved life conditions for thousands of egg-laying hens.
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Quotations from the industry
Agribusiness has tended to consider farm animals primarily as tools of production, rather than as living and feeling animals. This attitude has resulted in the commodification of sentient beings and the prevalence of animal cruelty on industrialized factory farms. The following statements exemplify this attitude.
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Objection to foie gras
An American‘s objection to Foie Gras after discovering that it really is a cruel and unnecessary practice.
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Rescue report of Anna
The moving story of the rescue of Anna, a battery hen, narrated by the rescuer.
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Sites Internet
The Ethical Matrix
The Ethical Matrix is an educational resource for students and teachers in schools and colleges. The resource provides 3 class exercises in how to apply ethics to issues in animal farming, including an interactive web-based exercise. The exercise enables students to make ethical assessments, based on factual information, about the impacts of organic versus intensive farming methods on farmers, consumers, farm animals, and the environment.
Compassion in World Farming
The basis of all CIWF‘s Trust work is the recognition of farm animals as sentient beings, since animals are capable of feeling pain and suffering, experiencing sensations and emotions. CIWF also works to raise awareness of the detrimental impact of intensive animal farming on the environment, on human health and food security, and on scarce natural resources. CIWF Trust‘s Education website provides resources for the public, students and teachers, including referenced reports, fact-sheets, briefings and videos.
Farm Sanctuary
The basis of all CIWF‘s Trust work is the recognition of farm animals as sentient beings, since animals are capable of feeling pain and suffering, experiencing sensations and emotions. CIWF also works to raise awareness of the detrimental impact of intensive animal farming on the environment, on human health and food security, and on scarce natural resources. CIWF Trust‘s Education website provides resources for the public, students and teachers, including referenced reports, fact-sheets, briefings and videos.
Food & Water Watch
FWW are working with grassroots organizations and other allies around the world to stop the corporate control of food and water, and are committed to creating an economically and environmentally viable future. FWW promotes sustainable and local; chemical free; humanely raised; family farmed and clearly labelled food.
