Social And Voluntary Organisations And Initiatives – 5
- POSTED ON: 13 Nov, 2017
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- POSTED BY: Chari Vijayaraghavan
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Organisations that deal with animal welfare and rights are interesting to volunteer or work for. It’s also important to differentiate between animal welfare and animal rights.
Animal welfare is concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of animals. It may be an animal rescue group which helps individual animals in distress or may be many animals of a kind suffering from some epidemic. This is different from an animal rights group. Although some groups may belong to both categories, an animal rights group goes beyond the welfare of individual animals to advocate for the rights of animals to be treated in a certain way, such as not to be abused, or used for medical research, sport, food, or clothing. Here are a few interesting questions for you…
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