Ecologic and symbiotic approaches to animal welfare, animal rights, and human responsibility

Veterinarians confronted with situations involving animal welfare, animal rights, and human responsibility assume practical importance in the relationships of veterinarians with clients and other constituencies. To help resolve these situations, the authors briefly compare economics and ethics and discuss the types of rights. An attempt is made to bring animal welfare and animal rights into the same conceptual framework, using an ecologic approach. This reaches the thesis that the less human beings allow animals the right of self-determination, the more we should exercise responsibility in their care and welfare. Actively exercised human responsibility in all uses of animals is offered as a practical and valid alternative to the extreme of abolitionism. This alternative also is applied in a cautionary way to the role of veterinary medicine in specieism. The veterinary profession is urged to be active in the middle ground of the field of animal rights and to firmly establish its relationships to animal welfare and human responsibility.     

提高动物性食品安全性，开发“无公害”的畜禽产品

一、历史背景 人们对“食品安全性”含义的理解,是随生产力发展和科学技术进步而逐步深化、全面的。用历史唯物主义的观点来分析这个进步过程是十分清楚的。     

Animal welfare, animal rights and agriculture

The past decade has witnessed a major revolution in social concern with animals. Philosophically, this revolution entails a significant revision in traditional ways of conceiving our moral obligations to other creatures. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the social and conceptual basis for what is widely termed "animal rights." The agricultural community has mistakenly tended to dismiss this new thinking as fringe and emotionally based. In actuality, it is a natural extension of earlier social thought. The case of new laws regulating biomedical research illustrates the rapidity of social change in this area, as do recent developments in European regulation of agriculture. The relevance of this new moral thought to what has hitherto been understood purely in economic terms must be assimilated by the American agricultural community before the agricultural community can respond appropriately and non-reactively.     

抗生素、转基因食物和动物克隆

近几年来,抗生素在动物饲料中的应用和禁用问题,转基因食物的安全性问题和克隆动物能否为公众接受等问题,已成为动物保健业以至人类食品安全中的重大议题,而且对这些问题的争论还在升温.笔者浏览了国内外的有关资料,将主要内容整理后供读者参考.     

做好动物防疫监督工作 促进畜牧经济稳步发展

活畜交易市场在为广大农民的畜禽及其产品交易带来方便的同时，也为各种动物疫病传播提供了条件。笔者近20年的跟踪调查结果表明，散养畜群中暴发的各种动物传染病，有80％是通过活畜交易市场造成传播的。因此，强化活畜交易市场动物防疫监督工作力度，是预防动物疫病发牛，切实维护广大农民根本利益的重要举措。     

浅析畜牧生产中的动物福利与人兽共患病和公共卫生安全

近年来全球因人兽共患病引发的公共卫生事件频繁发生,对世界经济的发展和全球公共卫生安全带来了严峻挑战,此已引起国际社会的高度关注。有专家指出：人类对动物“严酷的剥削与过度的利用”,是造成了人禽（人畜）共患流行性疾病不断暴发的原因。本文阐述了动物福利与畜牧生产的关系和非福利因素对动物生理健康的影响。以期引起全社会关注和促进动物福利事业的发展,积极为畜牧生产中的动物创造一个精神上协调一致、生理上完全健康的生存状态,减少动物疫病（特别是人兽共患病）的发生与流行,保障畜牧业的发展与公共卫生安全。