The Welfare of Animals: The Silent MajorityThe Welfare of Animals is an exciting book that will stimulate and provoke its readers. It describes many problems faced by animals – those we use for food, for pleasure or in research, and those simply but harshly affected by shrinking habitats in the face of the ever-growing human population. And yet it is not a depressing read. It focuses not only on the difficulties that animals face, but on their capacity for free-choice, for joy and excitement, and on the possible ways in which the planet can be shared between species if only we take the time and trouble to think more carefully about the impact of our actions. Clive Phillips moved from the United Kingdom to take up a Foundation Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of Queensland, becoming Australia’s first Professor of Animal Welfare in 2003. This cultural leap, combined with his travels in countries like Malaysia and Borneo, permits him the unique and broad perspective that forms the backbone of this book. Eschewing the normal territory patrolled by the animal scientist (explaining the physiological basis of the stress response or causation of abnormal behaviour), Clive ventures into jungles and deserts, city centres and tribal homelands, and presents a book that remarkably and successfully combines travel-diary, nature notes, social and cultural history. |
Contents
Definitions and Concepts of Animal Welfare | 1 |
Mankinds Relationship to Animals in Nature | 13 |
The Middle Ages | 19 |
Victorian Times | 25 |
Life in a Natural Setting | 34 |
Empathy Towards Animals | 46 |
Animal Welfare and Animal Rights | 55 |
Welfare Assessment | 79 |
Teaching Animal Welfare | 129 |
Animal Welfare Science | 137 |
The Scale and Intensity of the Worlds Animal Industries | 149 |
Animals in Research | 173 |
Future Developments in Animal Welfare 187 | 186 |
References | 193 |
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Managing Animal Welfare and Rights 93 | 92 |
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