Farm rescue sanctuaries are founded on the\nidea that farmed animals deserve a good life and compassionate treatment. These\nsanctuaries rescue a range of animals, including pigs, chickens, cows, sheep,\ndonkeys, and goats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Farmed animal sanctuaries usually hold that\nanimals in industrial agriculture are routinely treated badly. Animals in\nfarmed animal sanctuaries may be rehabilitated from the physical and mental\nharms they may have suffered. For example, farmed pigs and chickens may need to\nbe helped when genetic factors and cramped conditions have caused leg problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, animals in farm sanctuaries are\noften allowed to engage in a variety of behaviours that were denied to them in\nagricultural confinement. Such sanctuaries aim to provide good veterinary\nmedical care for each animal and refrain from agricultural practices that cause\npain and suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A significant element of farm sanctuaries\nis raising awareness of the harms they suffer in farming systems. Sanctuaries\nhave the dual goal of providing refuge\/rehabilitation and animal advocacy to\nstop exploiting animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those who think that animals in agriculture\nare mostly treated ethically may find that farm animal sanctuaries have little\nvalue. Nonetheless, the general public certainly has growing concerns about\nfarmed animal treatment. For the public, animal sanctuaries may also provide\nopportunities to interact with animal species that are mostly hidden from view\nin farming systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, farmed animal sanctuaries\nthemselves have received critique. For example, the political philosopher\nWilliam Kymlicka and his collaborator Sue Donaldson have raised questions about\nthe best form of farmed animal sanctuary. This critique of theirs is friendly,\ninsofar as they believe that it is appropriate to help farmed animals and to\nraise awareness of their routine abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kymlicka and Donaldson argue that although\nsanctuaries rightly aim to treat animals compassionately and decently, they do\nnot always provide animals with the degree of freedom they need and deserve.\nThis freedom, Kymlicka and Donaldson argue, has four components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, animals should not automatically be separated\naccording to species. Instread, they should have the freedom (if they want to\ntake it) to mix with both humans and other animal species\u2014even if there are\nsome safety risks involved. Yet many sanctuaries, they say, are inclined towards\nsegregation. To minimise risk, sanctuaries could allow animals to escape to\nsafe zones when they choose to avoid others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, sanctuaries are predisposed to overly\nstrong environmental restrictions\u2014such as smaller yards and a lack of trees or\nforest\u2014to make it easier to care for the animals and to increase their safety.\nKymlicka and Donaldson argue that animals should be allowed to choose whether\nto roam further afield (within some limits) and even to choose not to associate\nwith humans\u2014or to associate on their own terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Third, they argue that animals should be\ngiven opportunities to engage in work. This could include, for example,\ncarrying objects, ploughing fields, or producing wool or eggs. Kymlicka and\nDonaldson contend that animals, like humans, often have a desire to work and\ncan find it rewarding. Hence, they should be given plenty of opportunities for\nwork (without being coerced), even though work can be hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fourth, farmed animals should not\nautomatically be deprived of opportunities for sexual pleasure or for raising\noffspring (their own or others\u2019). They acknowledge that this is not always\npossible. But they do claim that we should not simply assume that animals do\nnot benefit from these activities or that it is impossible in every case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An important theme in Kymlicka and\nDonaldson\u2019s argument is that even when we diligently try to give animals\nopportunities to flourish, we sometimes make assumptions<\/em> about their\nwellbeing. These assumptions can false, untested, or based more on convenience\nthan on a careful understanding of the animals\u2019 needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We can also tend to assume that all species\nhave the same needs. In truth, individuals can have more personal needs and\ndesires which they do not necessarily share with conspecifics. For example, some\npigs enjoy forming relationships with cows or goats, whereas others do not. And\nsome animals love to work or want to care for offspring, whereas others don\u2019t. For\nKymlicka and Donaldson, we need to be more attentive to individual<\/em> animal\ndifferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kymlicka and Donaldson believe that,\nsuitably reformed, farmed animal sanctuaries could provide animals with truly\nflourishing lives. They call this type of sanctuary \u201cintentional communities.\u201d\nSuch mixed species communities, they argue, will be even more powerful at\nadvocating for a better world for domestic animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simon Coghlan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Farm rescue sanctuaries are founded on the idea that farmed animals deserve a good life and compassionate treatment. These sanctuaries rescue a range of animals, including pigs, chickens, cows, sheep, donkeys, and goats. Farmed animal sanctuaries usually hold that animals in industrial agriculture are routinely treated badly. Animals in farmed animal sanctuaries may be rehabilitated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[1498,306,2235,85,1608,2236,2237,307,312],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-agriculture","tag-ethics","tag-farms","tag-opinion-2","tag-philosophy","tag-sanctuaries","tag-sanctuary","tag-simon-coghlan","tag-vet-ethics"],"rise-blocks_total_comments":0,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":82,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":83,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":94,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":82,"category_count":94,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Opinion","category_nicename":"opinion","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"Farm rescue sanctuaries are founded on the idea that farmed animals deserve a good life and compassionate treatment. 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