Unit 5: Lesson 1: Animal Rights

Anne Flaherty, a high school student once obsessed with marine mammals shares how her realizations about how humans treat animals requires actions both personal and community wide. In Animal Rights: A Series of Realizations Anne shows us how we can align our actions with our beliefs. Anne was recently appointed to the 2015 National Youth Leadership Council of Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots, an organization dedicated to conservation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Watch the video and go to eclass to give us your opinion on the following questions

There is much disagreement as to whether animals have rights or not. What do you think?

Discuss the following questions, keeping notes:

1. Are animals man's property?

2. Is it alright if we kill animals for food?

3. Is it alright if we use animals for hard labour?

4. Is it alright if we use animals for entertainment?

5. Can you think of any other cases that cause disagreement concerning animal rights?

6. Which treatment is considered unethical?

7. Can using or killing animals be justified for special reasons?

Read the adapted newspaper article (page 49) and tell us what you think the main point of the article is.

Now work on the text again. The folowing worksheet was prepared by a colleague and it was retrieved from the subject repository.

Let's practice the vocabulary.

As a last task we should work on the vocabulary of the text. Go to the e-class and upload as a comment to the post 5 words that are unknown to you with a definition, the greek equivalent, a synonym, an antonym, and 2 examples: one with the unknown word and one with its opposite.