This new third edition is greatly expanded and includes a new chapter on animal agriculture, plus additional discussions of animal law, companion animal issues, genetic engineering, animal pain, animal research, and many other topics.
Now with over 100 real-life veterinary case histories and analysis, this edition also includes new discussions of animal pain, distress and happiness, ethics of critical care, alternative medicine, legal status and value of animals, and ...
Most importantly, editors Benson and Rollin provide feasible approaches to put theory into practice. This book is a must-have for those interest in animal welfare.
Rollin offers a fully revised discussion of this white-hot debate over animal rights. Many of Rollin's concerns have taken center stage, and his proposed legislation to protect animals in experimentation has become federal law.
This book, the culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, explicates and justifies society’s moral obligation to animals in terms of the commonsense metaphysics and ethics ofAristotle’s concept of telos.
In this book Professor Bernard E. Rollin describes problems of animal welfare in today's agriculture, discusses the research that exists for improving these systems, and proposes topics for further study.
Explains how and why scientists have been so cavalier about animal use in laboratories and animal pain and explores the moral and scientific damage caused by their attitude.