Global variations in animal welfare between continents and countries

 ·         Variation between Continents

The concern for animal welfare occurs all over the world, but better concern and the act established the earliest and fastest in Europe:

Ø  1822: The UK Assembly passed a law forbidding the ill-treatment of horses and cattle.

Ø  1835: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was created.

Ø  1911: The Protection of Animals Act recognized cruelty to general animals and infliction of preventable suffering as criminal crimes.

Other European nations also passed a regulation, and then in 1976 the Board of Europe (which characterizes nearly every country in Europe) produced the ‘Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes’. Both systematic works on welfare and regulation continued to increase and today Europe has more laws defending and encouraging welfare than any other part of the world.

Concern for animal welfare is also strong in North America (particularly Canada) and Australasia, apparently because emigration from Europe led to traditional connections. But this is not to say that there are few difficulties for animal welfare in these regions. In the USA there is welfare rule both nationally and in specific states, but most laws do not cover farm animals, and livestock are commonly kept more intensively there than in most other nations.

In South Asia, India has some of the ideal laws and Legal provisions to defend animals. As per the Indian Constitution (Article 51A), it is the important duty of every resident to have kindness for all living individuals. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act is an Act of the Assembly of India passed in 1960 to prevent the infliction of excessive pain or suffering on animals and to modify the laws relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Action on animal welfare, such as scientific study and regulation, in Asia, Africa and South America has so far usually been less. This is partly for social and spiritual reasons and partly for financial motives.

·         Variation between Countries

There is also dissimilarity in animal welfare and activities about it between different nations within regions.

Europe: Awareness in animal welfare fluctuates between European nations. Concern has historically been stronger in the north of Europe, predominantly the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia, and weaker in the south reasons are complex. Numerous factors associated with this dissimilarity, including temperature (hotter in the south, which disturbs how animals are kept) and religion (Catholicism is mutual in the south, Protestantism in the north, with many effects on attitudes).

Asia: Asia includes many nations, very diverse, and not surprisingly there is also a discrepancy in attention to animal welfare, and also, prominently, to the morals of killing animals.

In Japan, e.g., many families have their own rice paddies, but few rear animals such as ducks that they would have to kill. Moderately a lot of difference is allied with the religions major in different nations.

In India, cattle are retained for milk but are hardly killed, either for meat or for euthanasia. So in India, there are Gaushalas, institutions that look after unfertile, sick or old cattle. Welfare in Gaushalas is occasionally good, sometimes poor.

When animals are killed, the procedures used also vary between nations, with effects on welfare, and this is also affected by culture and belief. As the main example, we have already noted that for food to be established as Halal, animals are usually not stunned before killing, and this is more common in some nations than others.