WORKING ANIMALS
(DRAFT ANIMALS / DRAUGHT ANIMALS / TRACTION ANIMALS)
We ought to have a page on on oxen, water buffalo, carriage horses, donkeys,
yaks, etc
- but we have very little information on the subject. If anyone can supply
this information, please write to:
info@aapn.org
Apparently China has the world's
largest population of donkeys - an estimated 10 million.
Generally speaking, we have no
quarrel with subsistence farmers who work hard and honestly to survive in poor
agricultural land. It is usual to find that they treat their animals as
well as they do themselves and their human families. Man and beast work
together in the struggle to make a living.
The problems come with increasing prosperity. For example, the farmer who
discovers that he can make more money by treating his animals badly. Then come
factory methods of farming and transport and all the horrors of the modern
situation.
Useful links:
World
Association for Transport Animal Welfare and Studies
Transport for Rural
Development
International Forum for Rural Transport and Development
Animal Traction Network - East and Southern
Africa
The Donkey Sanctuary

Click for Camel sacrifice
On to Experiment Animals
(Vivisection).

Last revised:
12 January 2006
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