DAWN VETERINARIAN

Animal shows have long been in vogue as a tool for networking opportunities for educationists, researchers, extension workers and industry people. University of Agriculture, Faisalabad has a tradition of organizing such shows as a teaching tool for training young people in animal agriculture. Presenting animals at cattle shows bring pride and honour to the owner. Competitions at these shows play important role in the development of breeds and serve as a yardstick for fellow breeders to develop their breeds. At University of Agriculture Faisalabad, horse and cattle show is now a permanent feature and people wait for the occasion throughout the year.These shows are conducted in February/March when buffaloes and cattle are generally at their peak production and weather is mild. Goat raisingcentres around the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, when goats are finally finished for selling at high prices. The proposed goat show will provide anopportunity for goat lovers at public and private level to ...

Summary The number of wild animals vastly exceeds that of animals on factory farms, in laboratories, or kept as pets. Therefore, animal advocates should consider focusing their efforts to raise concern about the suffering that occurs in the natural environment. While in theory this could involve trying directly to engineer more humane ecological systems, in practice I think activists should concentrate on promoting the meme of caring about wild animals to other activists, academics, and other sympathetic groups. The massive amount of suffering occurring now in nature is indeed tragic, but it pales by comparison to the scale of good or harm that our descendants — with advanced technological capability — might effect. I fear, for instance, that future humans may undertake terraforming, directed panspermia, or sentient simulations without giving much thought to the consequences for wild animals. Our #1 priority should be to ensure that future human...