Some Overseas Topics on Animal Welfare

-The Policy Statement of The World Veterinary Association-

Abstract

A Statement of the World Veterinary Association (WVA) entitled “Policy Statement on Animal Welfare, Well-Being and Ethology” is introduced here with other policy or basic principles of some academic societies, universities and research institutes of several parts of the world. The members of the Japanese Society of Comparative Ophthalmology are primatologists, toxicologists, fish science researchers, zoo veterinarians, small and large animal practitioners, faculty members of veterinary or medical schools and others, so that the basic principles for animal welfare of the Editorial Board of the official magazine embrace a broad ophthalmologic field, practitional and basic, in mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes and so on, Furthermore, the Board of Regents of the Society supports the principles.

Therefore, we concur with the above policy statement of the WVA published in May of 1992 in Paris, France, in nearly all its articles.