Category: Moral Decency
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Bakhton
The Ethical Killing of Animals
The World Assembly,
RECOGNIZING that many nations kill animals in order to clean, process, and cook their meat for the purpose of feeding their citizens,
APPLAUDING nations’ and this assembly’s commitment to end hunger in the impoverished areas of the world as well as its endeavor to provide healthy food for all people,
CONCERNED, however, that sentient animals are legally allowed to be killed in a manner that causes them extensive and unnecessarily elongated physical pain due to the lack of international standards,
BELIEVING all unnecessary physical pain, whether from sentient or sapient lifeforms, to be a matter worthy of prevention,
DEFINES for the purpose of this resolution:
a) ‘Sentient animals’ as species with the ability to experience sensations such as physical pain and the ability to physically react to said pain in an identifiable way,
b) ‘Cruelty’ as the act of exposing a sentient animal to physical pain for elongated and unnecessary lengths of time,
c) ‘Physical pain’ as the sensation felt by all sentient animals when exposed to physical harm damaging to their tissues or organs, internal or external, which causes intense feelings of discomfort,
MANDATES that in the legal killing of sentient animals for food, all sentient animals are to be killed in a manner avoiding cruelty and unnecessarily prolonged physical pain and that nations shall take necessary legal action against said entities that are not in compliance with these standards,
CLARIFIES that this resolution only addresses food processing industries and makes no comment on the killing of animals for religious or ritual purposes, animal testing, the right of a person to kill a sentient animal in self-defense, hunting practices, or the rights of microbial and plant life,
URGING member nations to pass more legislation to increase the ethical treatment of sentient animals.