Animal welfare : competing conceptions and their ethical implications / Richard P. Haynes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haynes, Richard P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare.

Animals--Social aspects.

Animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Springer, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Members of the “animal welfare science community”, which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than the more “sentimental” account given by animal liberationists. This strategy has been used to argue for merely limited reform in the use of animals. This strategy was initially employed as a way of “sympathetically” responding to the abolitionist claims of anti-vivisectionists, who objected to the use of animals in research. It was subsequently used by farm animal scientists. The primarily reformist (as opposed to abolitionist) goals of this community make the false assumption that there are conditions under which animals may be raised and slaughtered for food or used as models in scientific research that are ethically acceptable. The tendency of the animal welfare science community is to accept this assumption as their framework of inquiry, and thus to discount certain practices as harmful to the interests of the animals that they affect. For example, animal welfare is conceptualized is such a way that death does not count as harmful to the interests of animal, nor prolonged life a benefit.

Contents:

The Science of Laboratory Animal Care and Welfare

The Roots for the Emerging Science of Animal Welfare in Great Britain

The Historical Roots of the Science of Laboratory Animal Welfare in the US

Laboratory Animal Welfare Issues in the US Legislative and Regulatory History

Mandated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees

Do Regulators of Animal Welfare Need to Develop a Theory of Psychological Well-Being?

Conclusion

The Emergence of the Science of Food Animal Welfare Mandated by the Brambell Commission Report

Rollin’s Theory of Animal Welfare and Its Ethical Implications

Duncan and the Inclusion of Subjectivity

Fraser on Animal Welfare, Science, and Ethics

Appleby-Sandøe and the Human Welfare Model

Nordenfelt and Nussbaum on Animal Welfare

Conclusion to Part II

Giving Animals What We Owe Them

to Part III

The Fair Deal Argument

A General Theory of Our Moral Obligations to Nonhuman Animals

Conclusion: Competing Conceptions of Animal Welfare.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-70877-1

9786611708771

1-4020-8619-9

OCLC:

272308267