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ANIMAL SUFFERING [15 records]

Record 1 2019-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Animal Husbandry
OBS

Niagara Action for Animals (NAfA) is an all-volunteer registered charity founded in 1989. ... NAfA’s mission is to work through public education and community outreach to foster a more compassionate society that respects the innate worth of all beings. NAfA advocates for animals through community programs, education and outreach.

OBS

... NAfA has an ongoing commitment to improve the environment. While continuing to raise awareness of animal suffering and exploitation, NAfA encourages a vegan lifestyle as the most effective means to reduce [humanity's] collective carbon footprint.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Élevage des animaux

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Protection of Farm Animals
  • Aquaculture
  • Commercial Fishing
OBS

Mercy For Animals exists to end... the exploitation of animals for food, in particular, industrial animal agriculture, aquaculture, and fishing. These forms of food production cause... animal suffering and have detrimental effects on the planet and [on] people. MFA is dedicated to eradicating this... food system and replacing it with one that is not just kind to animals but [one that is] essential for the future of [the] planet...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
  • Aquaculture
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Protection of Farm Animals
OBS

The Vancouver Humane Society is dedicated to exposing animal abuse and assisting individuals, businesses and governments to end animal suffering, cruelty and exploitation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Zoology
  • Ethics and Morals
DEF

A group aiming at preventing animal suffering due to cruelty.

Key term(s)
  • animal welfare organisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zoologie
  • Éthique et Morale

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Failure to exercise reasonable care of an animal or a bird, thereby causing it suffering or injury by wilful neglect, in the absence of evidence to the contrary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

omission d'accorder des soins raisonnables : terme tiré du Mini-lexique sur les infractions concernant les biens et les droits de propriété et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Medicine
DEF

An animal that is sick, injured, disabled or fatigued and that cannot be moved without avoidable suffering, and must not be transported.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine vétérinaire
DEF

Animal malade, blessé, handicapé ou fatigué qu’on ne peut transporter sans lui causer des souffrances évitables et qui ne doit donc pas être transporté.

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Animal Husbandry
DEF

... an animal with reduced capacity to withstand transportation but where transportation with special provisions will not lead to undue suffering.

CONT

Compromised animals may be locally transported with special provisions to receive care, be euthanized or humanely slaughtered.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine vétérinaire
  • Élevage des animaux
DEF

[...] animal dont les capacités de résistance au transport sont affaiblies mais qui peut être transporté dans certaines conditions sans que le transport ne lui inflige de souffrances injustifiées et déraisonnables.

CONT

Les animaux fragilisés peuvent être localement transportés dans certaines conditions afin de recevoir des soins, être euthanasiés ou abattus sans cruauté.

Spanish

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Record 8 2015-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Slaughterhouses
CONT

Traditionally the purpose of stunning is to render the animal unconscious(and thus insensible to pain) but not to actually kill it. Death is caused by loss of blood following sticking. This kind of stunning is called(in the case of electrical stunning) head-only stunning. Inherent within it is the danger that it is reversible, i. e. animals may regain consciousness before death occurs, which will result in very considerable suffering.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Abattoirs
DEF

Dans un abattoir, anesthésie par électrocution pratiquée sur les porcs avant égorgement.

Spanish

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Record 9 2015-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Equipment
  • Slaughterhouses
OBS

[The] dispatch kit combines the techniques of controlled blunt-force trauma and penetrating captive bolt into a euthanasia system. It can be used to euthanise a range of species, from small animals such as poultry through to extremely large animals such as bulls.

OBS

[The] stunner [included in the dispatch kit] renders the animal instantly and irreversibly insensible to pain prior to slaughter, eliminating stress and suffering, improving meat quality and throughput, resulting in increased profits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement vétérinaire
  • Abattoirs
DEF

Trousse servant à étourdir les animaux pour les euthanasier ou pour les préparer à l’abattage, selon le cas.

Spanish

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Record 10 2009-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

Treatment of an injury with a hot iron.

CONT

The scientific evidence for whether the firing of horses is ethically acceptable relates to two issues... Is firing an effective therapy?... If it is effective, is the level of suffering caused justified by the effectiveness and long term benefit to the animal? The most obvious source of suffering is pain related to the thermal burns that come with firing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine vétérinaire
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Cautérisation thérapeutique par le feu [...]

OBS

[...] souvent pratiquée sur les tendons des chevaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medicina veterinaria
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 11 2007-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Protection of Farm Animals
OBS

The Canadian Association for Humane Trapping(CAHT) was founded in the late 1940's and received its national charter as a not-for-profit, charitable association from the Secretary of State on January 21, 1954. CAHT is a charitable, non-profit organization which works constructively toward abolishing the suffering imposed on wild animals by devices or trapping systems used to capture them. It is not a trapping, anti-trapping or animal rights organization. CAHT respects diverse philosophies and approaches while reserving the right to promote its own objectives. CAHT's mission is to abolish the pain and suffering of animals trapped for any reason. CAHT seeks to work with persons and institutions promoting humane trapping improvements benefiting wild animals and wildlife biologists, conservationists, the fur industry, governments and their officials, and to make practical progress to reduce and eliminate avoidable pain, suffering and injury of fur bearers.

OBS

Title and abbreviation confirmed by the association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
OBS

Appellation et abréviation confirmés par l'organisme.e

OBS

Proposition de traduction : Association canadienne du piégeage humanitaire.

Spanish

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Record 12 2005-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Protection of Farm Animals
OBS

The BC SPCA is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the quality of life for domestic, farm and wild animals in British Columbia. Through its 37 branches located around BC and its provincial office in Vancouver, the BC SPCA responds to 200, 000 animal-related calls each year and provides a wide range of services for nearly 60, 000 homeless, abused, and abandoned animals around the province. The BC SPCA was created under the auspices of the provincial Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, and has the powers to enforce laws relating to animal cruelty and to prepare cases for Crown Counsel for the prosecution of individuals who inflict suffering on animals.

OBS

Title and abbreviation confirmed by the association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
OBS

Appellation et abréviation confirmées par l'organisme.

Key term(s)
  • Société pour la prévention de la cruauté envers les animaux de la Colombie-Britannique

Spanish

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Record 13 2002-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Drugs
  • Penal Law
  • Toxicology
CONT

Causing unnecessary suffering... Every one commits an offence who...(e) wilfully, without reasonable excuse, administers a poisonous or an injurious drug or substance to a domestic animal...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments vétérinaires
  • Droit pénal
  • Toxicologie
CONT

Faire souffrir inutilement un animal [...] Commet une infraction quiconque, selon le cas : [...] e) volontairement, sans excuse raisonnable, administre une drogue ou [une] substance empoisonnée ou nocive à un animal [...]

Spanish

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Record 14 2002-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Veterinary Drugs
  • Penal Law
  • Toxicology
CONT

Causing unnecessary suffering... Every one commits an offence who...(e) wilfully, without reasonable excuse, administers a poisonous or an injurious drug or substance to a domestic animal...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments vétérinaires
  • Droit pénal
  • Toxicologie
CONT

Faire souffrir inutilement un animal [...] Commet une infraction quiconque, selon le cas : [...] e) volontairement, sans excuse raisonnable, administre une drogue ou [une] substance empoisonnée ou nocive à un animal [...]

OBS

Le terme «drogue» est réservé aux substances qui engendrent une dépendance. C'est cependant le terme qui a été retenu dans la Loi des aliments et drogues, de préférence à «médicament».

Spanish

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Record 15 1995-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Alleviate animal suffering through direct emergency aid and pet adoption program; promote "zero pet population" growth, humane education, importance of wildlife conservation, and protection of endangered species

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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