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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Black" data-source="post: 6642" data-attributes="member: 200"><p>I notice this appear wider afield, on the US-led Bee_L listserver I watch. It will be interesting see what they make of it, and the ensuing messy discussion.</p><p></p><p>It’s a draft, sure, but the language is tortuous – no plain English Crystal Mark there. I think it shows a particular view of beekeeping (“hives easily accessible by vehicle”!) and, knowingly or unknowingly, follows an ‘older’, agricultural, view of animal welfare (known as The Five Freedoms, <strong>FAWEC.org</strong>). They go like this:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The animal is free from hunger, thirst and malnutrition, because it has ready access to drinking water and a suitable diet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The animal is free from physical and thermal discomfort, because it has access to shelter from the elements and a comfortable resting area.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The animal is free from pain, injury and disease, thanks to suitable prevention and/or rapid diagnosis and treatment.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The animal is able to express most of its normal behavioural patterns, because it has sufficient space, proper facilities and the company of other animals of its kind.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The animal does not experience fear or distress, because the conditions needed to prevent mental suffering have been ensured.</li> </ul><p>Arguable how all that applies to bees but nowadays even entomology science papers have ‘ethical’ statements.</p><p></p><p>So I have misgiving about this draft, but not really about the aim to develop a good COP. A modern view of ethically acceptable animal husbandry rests on three principles</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Organisms and the ecosystems they inhabit have intrinsic value</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Their welfare is thought of in terms of a sustained physiological and behavioural ability to anticipate and respond to environmental change</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That the practice of ‘care’ or husbandry requires certain skills; attentiveness, responsibility, competence and, responsiveness, and the ability discern how to behave.</li> </ul><p>Practice is embedded in the wider physical, biotic, and human societal environment. It is not (just) a list of rules. In a Kantian world-view “<em>Any action whereby we may torment animals, or let them suffer distress, or otherwise treat them without love, is demeaning to ourselves.”</em> <strong>Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)</strong>. He argues that it is demeaning to ourselves because not acting ethically undermines the system of values that ratifies our rational humanity; in a Maori world-view, diminishes our mana.</p><p></p><p>And that’s exactly why we should have one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Black, post: 6642, member: 200"] I notice this appear wider afield, on the US-led Bee_L listserver I watch. It will be interesting see what they make of it, and the ensuing messy discussion. It’s a draft, sure, but the language is tortuous – no plain English Crystal Mark there. I think it shows a particular view of beekeeping (“hives easily accessible by vehicle”!) and, knowingly or unknowingly, follows an ‘older’, agricultural, view of animal welfare (known as The Five Freedoms, [B]FAWEC.org[/B]). They go like this: [LIST] [*]The animal is free from hunger, thirst and malnutrition, because it has ready access to drinking water and a suitable diet. [*]The animal is free from physical and thermal discomfort, because it has access to shelter from the elements and a comfortable resting area. [*]The animal is free from pain, injury and disease, thanks to suitable prevention and/or rapid diagnosis and treatment. [*]The animal is able to express most of its normal behavioural patterns, because it has sufficient space, proper facilities and the company of other animals of its kind. [*]The animal does not experience fear or distress, because the conditions needed to prevent mental suffering have been ensured. [/LIST] Arguable how all that applies to bees but nowadays even entomology science papers have ‘ethical’ statements. So I have misgiving about this draft, but not really about the aim to develop a good COP. A modern view of ethically acceptable animal husbandry rests on three principles [LIST] [*]Organisms and the ecosystems they inhabit have intrinsic value [*]Their welfare is thought of in terms of a sustained physiological and behavioural ability to anticipate and respond to environmental change [*]That the practice of ‘care’ or husbandry requires certain skills; attentiveness, responsibility, competence and, responsiveness, and the ability discern how to behave. [/LIST] Practice is embedded in the wider physical, biotic, and human societal environment. It is not (just) a list of rules. In a Kantian world-view “[I]Any action whereby we may torment animals, or let them suffer distress, or otherwise treat them without love, is demeaning to ourselves.”[/I] [B]Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)[/B]. He argues that it is demeaning to ourselves because not acting ethically undermines the system of values that ratifies our rational humanity; in a Maori world-view, diminishes our mana. And that’s exactly why we should have one. [/QUOTE]
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