Title: Explain the relationship between animal welfare and the animal rights movement.
Course: Veterinary Science II (18105-II) > Section: Maintaining Professional and Ethical Standards

Explanation should include

- the concepts of animal welfare through history
- the American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA's) animal welfare principles
- development of the animal rights movement in the early 1970s
- local animal welfare and animal rights groups
- the impact animal welfare and animal rights groups have had on society as well as on the lives of animals and on modern legislation and industry practices.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How do different cultures view the role that animals play in society?
- What are some of the fundamental differences between animal welfare and the animal rights movement?
- What is the viewpoint of those more extreme individuals who refer to themselves as animal liberationists? What is their effect on society?
- What are the five freedoms of animal welfare?