Thursday, May 29, 2014

Result of Wordle

 
These pictures below show two sides of Animal Rights.
 
 
--RSPCA is a web site for prevention of Cruelty to Animals--
 
 
"Result of Wordle." . RSPCA, n.d. Thur. 29 May. 2014. <http://www.rspca.org.uk/home.>.
 
 
 
--NCC is the non-profit trade association representing the U.S. chicken industry--
 "Result of Wordle." . The National Chicken Council, n.d. Thur. 29 May. 2014. <http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/>.
 
 
 

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

30 Questions

We will answer the 30 questions below from now on.
  1. Is there any difference between animal rights and human rights?
  2. What is the definition of animal rights or welfare?
  3. Is it possible to communicate with animals?
  4. If animals speak human languages, what would happen?
  5. Do schools in Japan teach animal welfare to children?
  6. How many kinds of animals are there in the world?
  7. How many endangered animals are there now?
  8. When were Animal Rights first proposed?
  9. Who are the most famous Animal Rights supporter in the world?
  10. What is the law related to Animal Rights/Animal welfare?
  11. How is foie gras (goose liver) made?
  12. How many vegetarians are there in the world?
  13. What kind of influences do we have if all animals are wiped out?
  14. Does the Japanese government take necessary measures to protect animals' welfare ?
  15. Compared with Western nations, do you think Japan is animal-friendly country?
  16. Should animal abuse be banned?
  17. What is the main reason for animals to be killed?
  18. Are we able to survive without eating animals' meat?
  19. What kind of people are vegetarians?
  20. Are there any groups or famous people who have firm or strange ideology of animal protection?
  21. What benefits can we get from stopping killing animals?
  22. Are animal experiments for medical use necessary?
  23. How are animals in medical lab treated? 
  24. Why are animals used in medical experiments?
  25. What kind of medical results have we got from the animal experiments?
  26. How can we prevent those animal experiments for medical use?
  27. In the near future, what improvement on animal welfare would be expected?
  28. Also, What problems would we face?
  29. As a human, what can we do to protect animal welfare?
  30. After 10000 years from now, which will be more likely to survive, humans or animals?
(Note: We referred to other classmates' blogs in order to create these questions above.)

--Animal related news--


Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Good points and Bad points

--Preface--
 We had tried to look for a good website and a bad website which are related to the animal rights so that we could construct our ideas well. However, it was quite difficult to find completely bad or immature websites, because every site has good and bad features.

 Therefore we decided to analyze one particular website and tried to learn what is good and bad points of the site.

 We used this site for our website analyzing.

[Animal Welfare Org]
http://www.animal-welfare.org/index.html

--Good and Bad--
*Good points of this site
  1. All assertions made by the author are supported by other sites or information source.
  2. Visually understandable explanation (usage of a lot of pictures and videos)
  3. The site's contents are quite well-organized.
*Bad points of this site
  1. The author's opinions seem to be a little bit one-way.
  2. There is no introduction of the opposite opinions.
  3. This site lacks the author's specific information.
--Analyzing (Supported by 21cif.com)--

Author: 
The author of this site is an unknown vegetarian person whose age is 52.

Publisher: 
This site seems to be run by a private person

Objectivity:
The author clearly declares he strongly condemns animal abuse.

Links From: 
There are a lot of links connected to related sites and connecting to this site.

Date:
The information this site deals with is quite fresh. In addition, it uses twitter for the latest news.

Accuracy: 
The articles on the site are quite persuasive ones, but maybe they are a little bit biased.

Evidence: 
Though we are not sure how reliable these materials on the site are,
but in order to support the point of author's view, he uses a lot of external pictures and movies.

--Animal related news--

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

To be or not to be that is the question

  We, human beings, have hugely depended on animals' sacrifices. For example, we consume a lot of animal's meat every day. Moreover, we use animals for medical experiment in order to create new medicine or get new useful information. In addition, sometimes, we hunt animals just for fun.
  Our standard of living has been retained by those countless different lives. However, some people have tried to challenge this long-lived traditional conventions. Their movements have gradually changed current the situations surrounding animals. For instance, some regulations on making foie gras have been set in order to protect ducks in various countries. They say that we can live without the animals' devotion. According to their assertion, we should eat crops, vegetables or fruits instead of the life. However, some ironic people criticize them on the ground that those apathetic things also have life.
  On the other hand, some people point out that we should take advantage of the benefits as long as we use them humbly.

Should we harm animals for our convenient livings?

                              or

Should we stop harming animals?

We would like to search and discuss this topic from now on.