Dilemmas in animal welfare / edited by Michael C. Appleby, World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), UK, Daniel M. Weary, University of British Columbia, Canada, and Peter Sandøe, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps, chartsContent type: - text
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- Animal welfare
- Animal Welfare
- Agricultural Economics
- Veterinary Economics, (New March 2000)
- Pets and Companion Animals
- Dairy Animals
- Meat Producing Animals
- Animal Welfare
- Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals
- Animal Surgery and Non-drug Therapy, (New March 2000)
- Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
- Other Wildlife Diseases, (New March 2000)
- Animal housing
- Animal welfare
- Beef cattle
- Conservation
- Dairy cattle
- Disease transmission
- Docking
- Domestic animals
- Economic impact
- Ethics
- Feral cats
- Laboratory animals
- Livestock
- Obesity
- Pain
- Performance traits
- Poultry
- Public health
- Risk assessment
- Tail
- Values
- Wild animals
- Wildlife conservation
- Zoonoses
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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).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 in 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-Sant'Ana, 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.
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