environmental effects

Environmental ethics

moral consideration not for induvial animals but for ecosystems

What is difference of animal ethic and environmental?

moral consideration not for individuals animals, but for ecosystem

How do we apply deontology and ultraism?

How do we measure evaluate the pain and pleasure for an ecosystems?

How do we not ise ecosystem to an end that is not their own?

How can use of animals impact the environment ?

agriculture

laborty

companion

wildlife

Agricultural land use

we use about 30% of our land dor livestock production beef

well about 33% is crop land to grow the food for live stalk

How much of livestock is argulcultere?

about 70% of all agriculture is live stalk production

Agriculture water use

cows consume million of gallon of water not just drink but washing area and to cool them down as well to grow the food they require

Waste agriculture land

nitrogen and phosphorus deposti into soil and the soil in unable to combat it and balance the soil cost towards the land

Waste water

waste lagoons can easily leak into the soil as well as fresh water supply contaminating it as well as there lagoons release emission

Green house gas emissions are

large methane release excess in the cows through burping an large amount due to mass production

How many laboratory animals are can case hold?

800

What are the environmental effects of laboratory animals?

Hazardous waste

- bedding feces

- land fill

single use plastic

Air pollutants

- incinerate radioactive animal and waste

Animal water off pollution

rivers, streams and tap water that get into drinking water

What do labrorty of animal require a lot of?

there is large amount of water use for sterilization/ autoclave

energy use

10x office buildings

- 2368 charged in smartphones

How do companion animals effect the meat industry?

if American pets were their own country they would rank 5th globally in volume of meat consumption this is due to larger amounts of animals people have

83-88 million owned dogs

60-62 million

What is largest component in most animal food?

form of start about 4 m ton and 1.4B

What waste effect are caused by pets?

they urinate and have lost feces that can contaminate the soil

the feces in plastic bags are then burn creating more population

What is ecological footprint?

sum of all the waste this is largely increased with dogs and included with there waste

How do out door cats effect are environment?

every year free ranging domestic cats kill and estimated

1.3-4 billion birds

6.3- 22.3 billion mammals

How detrimental are cats to bird mammals and reptiles?

contributed to 33 ( 14%) of there extinction

due to the fact that feral cats kill 3x as many animal as pet cats

largest source anthropogenic mortality

What can humans effect wild animals?

- hunting and harvesting

How has hunting keystone species effect are environment?

keystone species is an organism that helps hold the system together

ex sea otters were hunted near extinction and increase in sea urchins and overgrazing kelp forests

How does harvesting useful species? ex

horseshoe crab blood is the only natural source of a substance that detects endoxian

used to test injectable drugs, vaccines, and mechanical implants against endotoxin contamination

How many horse crabs are caught and killed?

every about half a million crabs are caught , bled, then released again as many 30% die

How have the horseshoe crab population differed?

1990- 1.24 million

2002- 334 million

2019 335 million

How are people trying to save horseshoe crabs?

there important food for threatened migratory bid species