Glossary Of Terms
- Activist-an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
- Autism-a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract concepts.
- Anxiety-a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
- Humane Slaughter- (RSPCA) "an animal must be either killed instantly or rendered insensible to pain until death supervenes"; the animal must be stunned prior to bleeding out so they immediately become unconscious.
- Stockyard-a large yard containing pens and sheds, typically adjacent to a slaughterhouse, in which livestock is kept and sorted.
- Welfare-the health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group