The World Assembly,
Abominating the mistreatment and abuse of animals;
Recognizing ethical value in the profound emotional consciousness and cognitive awareness many animals possess, and its frequent disregard;
Seeing some cases of animal slaughter to be needlessly cruel and torturous;
Viewing the fact that animals are seldom treated with any semblant dignity or humanity in slaughterhouses as an unfortunate reality of meat consumption;
Observing, however, the importance of meat production and animal meat as a whole to a nation's economy and the individual's diet on a nutritional and principle level;
Wishing for animals to have more secure protections under the law while not compromising the meat, livestock, and pet industries;
Mentioning that invertebrates, fish, and very small animals lack the intelligence and biology to process and express profound physical or emotional pain; and the relative insignificance of protecting fish, invertebrates, and very small animals from abuse or mistreatment;
Hereby;
1. Defines an animal (under protection of this resolution) as a mammal, avian, amphibian, or reptile whose species grows to be within a minimum range of 4 to 7 centimeters in size length on average at adulthood;
1a. Excludes fish and invertebrates from the definition of an animal under protection of this resolution;
2. Defines breeding as forcing or inducing a female animal's pregnancy by the gametes of a male animal of the same species resulting in spawn;
2a. Defines immoral crossbreeding as breeding two different animals resulting in spawn with genetic deformities detrimental to its/their health;
3. Defines slaughter, for the purposes of this proposal, as killing an animal by means of a tool or machine for the preparation, consumption, packaging, and/or vending of its meat or by-product;
4. Defines farming as keeping, breeding, and slaughtering animals in order to create and sustain a generation of the animals' meat or by-product;
5. Defines Total Animal Massacre as nearly or completely killing an entire group of animals such to not be able to re-breed them for the use of farming, or in a way unnecessary to survival;
5a. Classifies Total Animal Massacre as unnecessary animal slaughter;
6. Defines animal abuse as the emotional and/or physical mistreatment of an animal by means of;
- Causing repeated physical harm resulting in mutilation, disability, and/or death;
- Neglecting physical necessities such as warmth, food, shelter, proper habitation, or proper grooming, eventually resulting in trauma, undernourishment or death;
- Chronic neglect or denial of a pet's required affection/attention;
- Subjecting an animal to superfluous torture which ultimately results in physical or mental trauma, disability, mutilation, or death;
- Bestiality;
- Immoral crossbreeding as defined in Clause 2a;
6a. Defines animal torture as referenced in Clause 6, for the purposes of this resolution, as inflicting severe and repeated injury that is unnecessary to one's own immediate safety, self-defense, survival, or the safety/health of the animal;
6b. Defines a pet as an animal purchased or adopted to be kept in one's home;
6c. Defines bestiality as sexual interaction with an animal in an attempt to bring sexual stimulation/pleasure to oneself, sexual stimulation to the animal, or both;
6d. Includes legal, veterinary procedure such as surgery, neutering or spading as action under Clause 6a protective of an animal's health;
6e. Classifies animal slaughter resulting from animal abuse or mistreatment as defined above as unnecessary animal slaughter;
7. Defines Mammalian Pedicide as killing a mammal before its respective age of maturity or killing a pregnant adult mammal;
7a. Classifies Mammalian Pedicide as unnecessary animal slaughter;
Hereby,
8. Prohibits unnecessary animal slaughter and animal abuse;
9. Mandates that member nations legislate punishment for unnecessary animal slaughter and animal abuse;
10. Clarifies that this proposal does not outlaw or criminalize seasonal hunting, whether for game or for food, in member nations where it is already legal;
11. Strongly encourages member nations to bring more focus to animal welfare within their nation;
12. Officially condemns overall animal mistreatment as defined above with the utmost intolerance and rancor.
