Food ethics: new religion or common sense?

E. Schmid

Food ethics: new religion or common sense?

于Climate change and sustainable development

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E. Schmid

E. Schmid Department Veterinary Public Health Federal Administration County Vorarlberg, Landhaus, 6901 Bregenz, Austria; erik.schmid@vorarlberg.at

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类型:: 章节

Page Range:: 373–378

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867530_0058

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The Austrian Animal Welfare Legislation obliges all communities to support the understanding of animal welfare in the public especially in youth and children. Teachers are stressed with compensating lack of education within the families. Additional challenging items e.g. ethics are not spontaneously welcome. Religion gets less important and there is urgent need for all-day school and comprehensive school between 10 and 14 years of age. Education in ethics including animal welfare could enrich or even replace classes in religion. Farm visits and experience in nature could enrich the additional time in school with practical exercise. The County of Vorarlberg therefore decided to create a competence-centre for human animal interaction. The concept is a classical train the trainer concept with education courses and farm visits for the teachers empowering them to teach the basics of animal welfare and ethics. The information material available is objective selected, scientifically approved and well applicable, including videos from CIWF. After the training course teachers are getting four different booklets for every pupil of the class for free: pet animals, farm animals, wild animals and experimental animals. Finishing the class all pupils get a certificate as ‘animal experts’. Editor is ‘Tierschutz macht Schule’ a society founded to transfer knowledge about animal husbandry and animal welfare form science to the public. Some teachers prefer inviting a specialised animal welfare teacher to give the classes or for assistance. Highlight is the final farm visit with direct contact to living animals. This regional concept is referring to data from Eurobarometer proving that the purchasing and nutrition behaviour of consumers significantly correlates with their knowledge and background of experience with local animal husbandry and farming systems. Additional precondition is transparent information and clear labelling along the chain of production. Pupils with learning or behavioural problems are showing maximum progress in their social skills within long term programme (farm visits every week). Not to underestimate the education effect of the programme for the parents, who are also interested in the booklets and the reports of their children about their contact to animals. In sustainable development and ethics this regional educational concept proves once more that it is possible to get the message across gaining children as ambassadors educating their own parents: not with creating a new religion, but only by giving good example of fair action respecting animals as sentient creatures and experience on the level of common sense.

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Climate change and sustainable development

Ethical perspectives on land use and food production

ISBN:: 9789086867530

出版社:: Wageningen Academic

印刷出版日期:: 15 Nov 2012

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