Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden: A Practical Approach to Redressing the Problem of Our Dominion Over the AnimalsThere has been a recent explosion of active concern in matters of animal welfare. The science behind animal welfare has progressed significantly, new codes of practice and legislation have come into to being, and innovative methods to assess welfare schemes for food production have emerged. Part of a major animal welfare series, Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden is John Webster's new and groundbreaking work on animal welfare. Building on his first book, the highly acclaimed Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden, it not only critically reviews areas of development, but looks to how animal welfare can be improved in the future. Special consideration is given to:
This book is part of the UFAW/Wiley-Blackwell Animal Welfare Book Series. This major series of books produced in collaboration between UFAW (The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare), and Wiley-Blackwell provides an authoritative source of information on worldwide developments, current thinking and best practice in the field of animal welfare science and technology. For details of all of the titles in the series see www.wiley.com/go/ufaw. |
Contents
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Limping Towards Eden 2 Challenge and Response | 24 |
Limping Towards Eden 3 Sentience Sense and Suffering | 46 |
Limping Towards Eden 4 Husbandry and Welfare on the Farm Assessment and Assurance | 77 |
Limping Towards Eden 5 Animals for Food Industrialised Farming Pigs and Poultry | 97 |
Limping Towards Eden 6 Animals for Food Cattle and Other Ruminants | 130 |
Limping Towards Eden 7 Animals for Food Handling Transport and Slaughter | 157 |
Limping Towards Eden 8 Animals for Science and Biotechnology | 180 |
Limping Towards Eden 9 Animals for Sport | 205 |
Limping Towards Eden 10 Animals as Pets | 227 |
Limping Towards Eden 11 Limping Towards Eden Stepping Stones | 249 |
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