Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters

30 / Chapter 1 noon. By the time I reached halfway down the line of the 120 dogs directly in my care, more dogs had arrived. I h ...

Companion Animals / 31 the transfers gave volunteers false hope. Moments after one truck- load of dogs departed for other shelte ...

32 / Chapter 1 “The Magnitude and Complexity” The LA/SPCA estimates that about twenty-three hundred of the fi fteen thousand los ...

Companion Animals / 33 The database also included nearly twenty-six thousand requests for rescue from people who left animals be ...

34 / Chapter 1 the act in several ways. It grants FEMA the authority to assist in the creation of disaster plans for animals. It ...

Companion Animals / 35 no fault of their own, while the villains are responsible for the harm. As scholars who study the constru ...

36 / Chapter 1 among households without children. Several factors make guard- ians of animals less likely to evacuate. First, th ...

Companion Animals / 37 with his or her animals avoids being a villain in one construction but becomes a villain later, in having ...

38 / Chapter 1 of the people and the animals. Because companion animals and humans depend on each other, evacuating animals is p ...

Companion Animals / 39 not to place themselves at unnecessary risk. Yet, the blockade of the city prevented animal response team ...

2 Animals on Factory Farms The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s ...

Animals on Factory Farms / 41 the process by which the care, diet, and breeding of a species come under human control. Tradition ...

42 / Chapter 2 However, in the majority of agriculture today, humans and ani- mals have little contact. There is little “animal ...

Animals on Factory Farms / 43 ior toward hens. Chickens require and enjoy many of the same behaviors that other birds engage in, ...

44 / Chapter 2 as one day old from a company that controls every aspect from breeding to “processing,” or slaughter and packagin ...

Animals on Factory Farms / 45 their beaks are cut off with a hot blade when the birds are just a few days old. In both broiler a ...

46 / Chapter 2 region. Kate Walker, of Farm Sanctuary, and Kim Sturla, of Ani- mal Place, went to Jackson, Mississippi, to get l ...

Animals on Factory Farms / 47 ing them up. They had this huge pit, which was probably twenty feet deep and then ten by ten wide ...

48 / Chapter 2 In an exemplary illustration of the ambivalence with which we regard animals, the farmer explained that he was an ...

Animals on Factory Farms / 49 were trapped in their mangled cages within twelve damaged sheds. The automated feed, water, and wa ...