Establishing Public Policy To Ensure Animal Well Being

The American Veterinary Association (AVMA) supports legislative procedures and the use of appropriately structured expert groups to develop public policy for animal welfare. Government-designated standards development agencies or advisory bodies are required to continuously improve the animal breeding system through comprehensive evaluation based on healthy science in consideration of actual implementation of those recommendations and social preferences of animal use You should strive. It is best to establish standard setting bodies and relevant public policy through legislative and regulatory procedures, including the opportunity for appropriate stakeholder participation.

AVMA recognizes the value of a voting initiative that can provide important opportunities for direct citizen participation, but since such problems are generally not suitable for "yes" or "no" AVMA Pay attention to the use of the voting initiative "Answer: The initiative of voting is limited because the opportunities to obtain comprehensive expert advice before an influence mechanism shrinks and voting on public decisions is limited, We are facing major challenges in solving complex problems such as setting of breeding standards.

In order to achieve its intended purpose, legislative or regulatory actions relating to the care and welfare of animals should result from the exchange of public information and opinions of all parties involved. This approach increases the prospect of consensus and deepens the understanding of animal needs and industry practices.

Representatives of standard setting bodies established through legislative and regulatory procedures should be balanced from the perspective of technical expertise and perspective. Balance is essential to ensure good results in breeding animals and gain public support and support

Due to the technical expertise of the standard setting agencies, various factors that affect animal health, such as access to the appropriate amount of fine food and water, illness, injury, predators, protection of animals from adverse conditions, etc. You can deal properly. Impact; Provide enough space and opportunity for animals to perform the necessary typical behaviors of the species; handle properly, transport them properly; and euthanize if necessary. As an expert on animal care, scientists in veterinary and animal welfare not only give technical understanding of the physical and mental needs of animals, but also their necessity and practicality of animal use and the public We also focus on balance with expectations. Veterinary and animal welfare scientists should be totally represented as they are professionally trained to promote animal rearing responsibly

Various supporters and views should be represented by standard setting bodies to promote a complete discussion of related issues. In addition to scientists in veterinary and animal welfare, members should also include practical expertise in the animal use industry, as well as individuals and the public representing the animal protection group.

To ensure animal health, a comprehensive and powerful plan is needed to measure, implement and evaluate the knowledge of the facility, expertise, efforts, and animal care and welfare practices. These requirements can be achieved by using a framework that outlines the necessary elements to establish an animal welfare plan and provides tools for evaluating them. Organizations using the framework of animal welfare will be launched in various places in the framework according to existing plans but will implement each element to ensure good welfare for all zoo and aquarium animals is needed.

For animal welfare regulations and public health service policies, individuals who take care of or using research animals must receive appropriate training. Specifically, all personnel involved in the research project must be trained with the appropriate qualifications and / or in the way they will perform for the project. Actual training may be carried out elsewhere, but institutions conducting research are responsible for ensuring such training. In preliminary studies, we will use few animals to prepare preliminary data and to modify or "improve" procedures and techniques before large-scale experiments. These tests are often used when testing new procedures and new compounds. Interim data is essential to justify supporting the reasons for supporting the submission of proposals to funding agencies, thereby increasing the possibility of financing the proposal. All pilot projects, like other animal experiments, must be approved by IACUC