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5 Freedoms of Animal Welfare

  1. Freedom from hunger & thirst.
  2. Freedom from discomfort.
  3. Freedom from pain, injury & disease.
  4. Freedom to behave normally (according to their species).
  5. Freedom from fear & distress.

Dr. Charlene Berkvens
Fostering Change Farm website

#animalwelfare
atheist 8 Jan 30
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Level 9

Last time I had looked humans were animals, mammals as I remember.

Sure but a lot less intelligent / caring than the four legged ones.

my grandmother and I had a huge argument about that

@btroje What did she think, we are cyborgs.

@azzow2 she thought humans were a whole separate category because we had a soul

@btroje I have heard that kind of statement in the past. Just being my normal wiseness lol
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Level 8

How about the freedom to be a nasty little shit and sink its claws into my ankle whenever I walk by?

You can also let your (cat - I assume ?), pet know this is not acceptable behavior. Lots of info online, or from your Vet.

@evergreen -- What? And take away his favorite toy? You ... you ogre.

@evidentialist well then ... enjoy your wounds !
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Level 8

I am totally in favor of this, but to be honest, I only have number 1.

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Level 8

Idealistic. If we're talking about wild animals not in a Disney film then Number 4 is the only one that is realistic. I do love animals.

gearl Level 8 Jan 31, 2018
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@atheist How?

@atheist I Googled it. From what I saw it applies to farm animals so I can see your list working from that perspective. What made me question was the "according to their species" in your number 4 where I assumed you were talking about wildlife. Again, I can see how people could apply those steps to domestic animals but not to wildlife. I could completely get behind permaculture and believe it's a great system.
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Level 9

We humans do not have that many freedom in our welfare.

@atheist Number 1 alone will be a big plus... Nr 4 will be unattainable utopia... I am okay with the freedom to behave normally but I don't want to behave normally... I want to be skewed me all the time.... 24/7.

@atheist I was thinking on Human Welfare of course and those humans in the need without the resources.

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Level 8

We certainly do fail to deliver these to way too many species !

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Level 8

I agree and wish everybody believed those five things were important.

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Level 8

there is no such thing as freedom

I didn't say it was and it's a nice thought
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