Studies Of Animal Welfare Legislation

As China’s the continuous development of economic and society, people’s rising level of education, people gradually began to turn to look to animals, began to focus on animal welfare issues. But in recent years, the incidents of emerging animal maltreatment have occurred in China, attracted wide attention of people and the media, such as the influential "Liu Haiyang sulfuric acid injury Bear","Fudan University students dig cat eyes" and "step2006cat "events etc., aroused a great deal of anger, when China Central Television reporter Chai Jing interview with the director of cat abuse incident, Lee, Lee clearly replied, step cat incident is not illegal, he has not going to do it if it is illegal, it is the bottom line that he can not go beyond firmly. This shows that the existing laws and regulations alone can not serve the purpose of effective protection of all animals, and almost all developed Western countries formulated animal welfare laws and regulations, among them, the UK’s Animal Welfare Act is the most comprehensive, so far already more than100countries in the world have enacted laws and regulations on animal welfare, including some of Africa’s economy is relatively backward country, even in China’s Hong Kong and Taiwan have also formulated a related laws, showing that China’s legislation on animal protection is lagging behind most countries in the world. The author think that in order to better promote China’s economic and social sustainable development and progress, to achieve harmony between man and animals, it is imperative and urgent to formulate laws and legislations on animal welfare. Based on the concept of animals and animal welfare analysis, and learn from western more developed countries art animal welfare legislative experience, combined with China’s national conditions,put forward ideas in the development of regulations on animal welfare.Removing the introduction part and the balance part, the article structure includes four parts, total fifty-two thousand words or so.The first part, animal welfare and Animal Welfare Act overview. In this part, the first of all, it analyzes the content of welfare and the final definition of welfare, as well as the emergence and development of animal welfare, discusses animals in the case of what is considered to have welfare, and then defines the animal concept, this chapter focuses on the theory of animal rights and animal welfare on these two concepts, the purpose is to allow people to clearly distinguish the differences from the animal rights and animal welfare.clear that legislation is for animal welfare rather than the animal rights legislation. And then describes Animal Welfare Act emergence and development process, intended for people understanding about the development process of Animal Welfare Act. This chapter mainly discusses some conceptual things.The second part, the Introduction of foreign animal welfare law and its enlightenment for China. This section introduces an overview of the foreign Animal Welfare Act and its significance for the Enlightenment, which introduced an overview of Animal Welfare Act in the United Kingdom, European Union, the United States, particularly the Animal Welfare Act is the most perfect in the United Kingdom, through the introduction of the general situation of foreign animal welfare Act, can make people aware of the large gap between with animal welfare in China and foreign countries, the urgency and necessity of legislation. As well as summarizes up the enlightenment of advanced Animal Welfare Act in these countries to us and that we need to learn from.The third part, the status of China’s animal welfare legislation and the analysis of the necessity and feasibility. This section describes the status of animal protection and the existence of some problems, mainly unsound laws and regulations did not lead to animal welfare at all, even in the protection is also very incomplete, makes the behaviors of the cruelty to animals and random acts of cruel killing of animals have not been legal sanctions and effective stop. And then dissertates the necessity of animal welfare legislation in China, mainly to protect people from health, to deal with international trade barriers, etc. are discussed. Finally, illustrates the current animal welfare legislation in our country is possible as well as the feasibility of animal welfare legislation with the conditions.Part IV, built in animal welfare law system line with China’s national conditions. This part is the key part of this article, focuses on the theoretical basis for animal welfare legislation in China, stresses that the animal welfare legislation in China must be based on China’s national conditions, while some of the issues to attent in the legislation,especially the legal status of animals must be put right, finally.to the proposed reconstruction of the legal system of animal welfare in China, make recommendations on China’s existing laws on animal protection system changes, and start the design of legal framework for animal from general principles and sub-legal.