This document outlines an individual self-planning assignment on the topic of animal rights. It discusses subtopics that will be covered in 4 episodes, including animal testing, the history of testing, how media portrays testing, animal organizations and how to help them, animal entertainment and cruelty in sports, and issues around animal fashion industries. Each episode explores the ethics and impacts of these topics on animals through interviewing experts and investigating practices, laws, public opinions and alternatives. The goal is to raise awareness of animal welfare issues and ways the public can advocate to prevent cruelty.

1. Assignment 7:
Individual Self Planning
Laura Cuk

2. Final Chosen Topic
My question is…

3. Episode 1
Introduction
Subtopic 1: Animal testing
Which countries still allow this to take place?
What is the testing for? Cosmetic? Is it moral?
What kind of effects does testing have on animals?
Subtopic 2: History of animal testing
What kind of methods do scientists use?
Showing the impacts of animal testing on society.
What are the laws for animal testing?
Subtopic 3: How does the media portray animal testing?
Are companies being honest about what goes into the products?
Interviews from people who use animal tested products

4. Episode 2
Introduction
Subtopic 2:
What do organisations such as RSPCA/PETA think about animal abuse?
What happens when they miss our calls when they is an animal in
danger?
Subtopic 1: Animal organisations
Are animal organisations doing they can to prevent animal cruelty?
How would they be able to prevent animal cruelty
What happens to the animals that don’t get adopted?
Subtopic 3: How can we help organisations for animal rights?
Adopting an animal?
Become an animal protector with WSPA/ASPCA
What happens if we don’t act now to protect animals?

5. Episode 3
Subtopic 2: Why are animals used in cruel sports?
Gambling for money
Subtopic 1: Animal entertainment
Is it right to provoke animals to fight each other?
What do are the training methods to provoke the animals into fighting?
What happens to the animals if they don’t perform good enough?
Subtopic 3: Where is the line drawn?
What happens when the animals are too old to perform
What methods are used in order to kill animals once they are too old?
Is it moral to kill animals in these kind of ways?

6. Episode 4
Introduction
Subtopic 1: Animal fashion
Is it moral to deprive animals of their fur?
Is it right to use pets as accessories e.g. puppies in handbags
Are we aware of what defenceless creature we are wearing?
Subtopic 2: Methods of getting the material
Are you aware of the cruellest killing methods to get the material you
wear?
Do you know what really happens when their fur is taken from them?
Some people skin animals alive. Do you know the noises they make?
Subtopic 3: Can we prevent this
Riots! Protests!
Make the experiments as humanely as possible
Its your choice, let the animals have a voice