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The Five Freedoms The Five Freedoms are basic ideals of welfare for farm animals, like livestock and poultry, wherever the animals may be, such as at farms, markets, slaughterhouses,
The Five Freedoms are honoured mainly by their neglect.
or in transit, and should be applied by anyone in charge of the animals or handling them. The Five Freedoms make good common sense and are broad enough to apply everywhere in the world.The Five Freedoms were first proposed in Britain in the 1960's. The Farm Animal Welfare Council, established by the British government in the late 1970's to advise it on legislative and other changes for farm animals, subsequently affirmed them. The Council was conservatively made up of individuals with connections to agriculture: farmers, animal farming company directors, veterinary surgeons and academics specialising in agriculture. Other bodies concerned with animal welfare have approved the Five Freedoms.
The Five Freedoms are:
The Five Freedoms are not inevitably applied and are more often honoured in the breach. How much animal farming and stockmanship concede toward applying the Five Freedoms to animals is demonstrated by the realities of factory farming, such as the chicken and egg industry. Nor are the Five Freedoms widely applied to animals farmed for their fur. Go to the Farm Animal Welfare Council for copies of their publications. Also see Chickens in How to Do Animal Rights and Broilers in the Animal Rights Encyclopedia. |
