Dilemmas in animal welfare / edited by Michael C. Appleby, Daniel M. Weary and Peter Sandøe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Appleby, Michael C.

Weary, Daniel M.

Sandøe, Peter.

C.A.B. International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare.

Animal Welfare.

Medical Subjects:

Animal Welfare.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire : CABI, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is comprised of 11 chapters covering different dilemmas in animal welfare. It deals with how, when deciding on the best way to treat an animal or groups of animals, one can be torn either between different concerns relating to the physical and affective welfare of the animal or between concern for the welfare of the animal and other competing concerns. Topics discussed include dilemmas within animal welfare (tail docking in cattle, welfare effects of obesity in cats and dogs and welfare and quantity of life), animal welfare and social priorities (improving farm animal welfare, divergent values ascribed to different animals and public health and animal welfare), animal welfare and conservation (balancing the need for conservation and the welfare of individual animals and value conflicts in feral cat management) and conceptual dilemmas (risk assessment approach to group housing and suffering in animals).

Contents:

Introduction : values, dilemmas, and solutions / Michael C. Appleby, Daniel M. Weary, and Peter Sandøe

Tales about tails : is the mutilation of animals justifiable in their best interests or ours? / Sandra Edwards and Pauleen Bennett

Fat companions : understanding the welfare effects of obesity in cats and dogs / Peter Sandøe, Sandra Corr, and Clare Palmer

Welfare and quantity of life / Nuno H. Franco, Manuel Magalhães-SantAna, and I. Anna S Olsson

Improving farm animal welfare : is evolution or revolution needed in production systems? / Maria José Hötzel

Whom should we eat? why veal can be better for welfare than chicken / Michael C. Appleby

Public health and animal welfare / Carla Forte Maiolino Molento

Balancing the need for conservation and the welfare of individual animals / Ngaio J. Beausoleil

Value conflicts in feral cat management : trap-neuter-return or trap-euthanize? / Clare Palmer

Alone or together : a risk assessment approach to group housing / Jeff Rushen and Anne Marie de Passillé

What is suffering in animals? / Daniel M. Weary.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Dilemmas in animal welfare.

ISBN:

1306693543

9781306693547

9781780642178

1780642172

OCLC:

878924407

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.