I'll show you the datas we got.
Many people cooperated with the survey, and most of them were the same age as us, about 19,20,21 years old. Also, over half of them were female and more than half of answerer did not have animals as pets.
Almost all people seemed to have interests in the issue of animal furs. This was important information for us to produce a NGO, because there is no meaning of the existence of our NGO if people don't have it.
About 60% thought rabbits are kept for
their fur and fox and raccoon are the same proportion, 13%. It might be said that the impression that
fur materials are made from small animals with fur might be strong. Next, about the way to keep the animals. Answerers thought animals are kept by cage and bait. These are certain ways to keep them without hurting.
Almost answerers thought fur products are
being produced in China and Africa. America was a minority view. Many clothes are made in China, so I think the impression of it leads to this results. Also, they got the information by television and
the Internet. Some web sites about animal fur put some images and movies which
is very shocking, so you should prepare mentally to see it.
93% know the term “animal right”, but about
40% don’t know the meaning of it. The term eans "the rights of animals, claimed on ehical grounds, to the same humane treatment and protection from exploitation and abuse that are accorded to humans" (quoted from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/animal+rights)
About 80% thought animals have same rights as humans. I was surprised about 20% of them don’t think animals have same rights as humans. Also,a number of people who know some NGOs
dealing with animal rights were small. They know PETA, ALF and greenpeace.
These are the results of our survey. It is hard to know the issue of animal rights and animal furs because there is no oppotunity to know it, even thought people use the Internet. However, I think people can do it to think animals have same rights as us and live as us...
These are the results of our survey. It is hard to know the issue of animal rights and animal furs because there is no oppotunity to know it, even thought people use the Internet. However, I think people can do it to think animals have same rights as us and live as us...
Hi Ayako,
返信削除You summarized the results of your survey very well, but, I think you're a bit confused about "animal rights." Even animal rights proponents don't claim that animals have the SAME rights as humans.
Just think about it. These are some of the rights put forward in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights < http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ >:
* "Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him."
* "Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses."
* "Everyone has the right to a nationality."
* "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association."
As you can see, it would be absurd to apply most of these rights to animals. It's ridiculous to say that an animal has the right to a nationality or to enter a marriage with free will, etc.
What animal rights advocates suggest is that animals deserve a particular subset of the rights that the UN has declared should be given to people. For example, Article 5 of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Animal rights supporters would agree that this should be applied to animals just as much as to humans and that humans have an obligation due to their power over animals to treat them humanely and refrain from harming them or causing suffering.
To be honest, I'm quite surprised that 80% of the respondents in your survey said that "animals have the same rights as humans." It made me wonder if they understood what human rights are.
The definition of animal rights that you gave in your blog post is an accurate one, although not all animal rights advocates would agree that it goes far enough. You should have presented that definition to the survey respondents to see if they would agreed with it, rather than ask a meaningless question like "Do you think that animals have the same rights as humans?"
Cheers,
Joseph D.