Animal Welfare: Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications

ISBN-13: 9789048179343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 162 str.

Richard P. Haynes

Opis

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."

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"Remarkably well-researched, philosophically reflective, and thought-provoking book ... . The value of Haynes's book lies in its superbly documented insistence that it is morally incumbent upon us to expropriate animal welfare from the narrow and self-serving definition widely disseminated by the animal science welfare community ... . Richard Haynes has written a genuinely important book on the ethics of human/animal relations ... ." (David Hoch, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 22, 2009)

"This valuable book serves two equally important purposes: it provides and intellectual history of the idea of 'animal welfare' and it also presents an ethical analysis of the uses and misuses of the term. ... the book not only a complement and correction to the existing literature on human-animal relations but also an original and substantive addition to it." (Anna Peterson, Agriculture and Human Values, Vol. 27, October, 2010)

Spis treści

Preface Introduction PART I. The Science of Laboratory Animal Care and Welfare Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Roots for the Emerging Science of Laboratory Animal Welfare in Great Britain Chapter 3. The Historical Roots of the Science of Laboratory Animal Welfare in the US Chapter 4. Laboratory Animal Welfare Issue in the US. Legislative and Regulatory History Chapter 5. Mandated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees Chapter 6. Do Regulators of Animal Welfare Need to Develop a Theory of Psychological Well-being? Chapter 7. Conclusion PART II. The Emergence of the Science of Food Animal Welfare Mandated by the Brambell Commission Report Chapter 8. Introduction Chapter 9. Rollin’s Theory of Animal Welfare and its Ethical Implications Chapter 10. Duncan and the Inclusion of Subjectivity Chapter 11. Fraser on Animal Welfare, Science, and Ethics Chapter 12. Appleby-Sandoe and the Human Welfare Model Chapter 13. Nordenfelt and Nussbaum on Animal Welfare Chapter 14. Conclusion PART III. Giving Animal What We Owe Them Chapter 15. Introduction to Part III Chapter 16. The Fair Deal Argument Chapter 17. A General Theory of Our Moral Obligations to Nonhuman Animals Chapter 18. Conclusion Index.