The Human Use of Animals reports the facts about some of the most compelling and difficult issues about animal welfare that confront society today. Fully revised and with four new chapters, the 16 case studies in the present volume explore a variety of controversies about the human uses of animals that have emerged over the last 40 years or so. The book begins with a lengthy exploration of applicable ethical theory. It then presents the facts of the 16 cases, followed in each case by analysis of pertinent theoretical and practical ethical issues. This volume offers a discussion of controversies within a range of contexts that includes biomedical, behavioural, and wildlife research, cosmetic safety testing, education, entertainment (zoos and circuses), the food industry, commerce, companion animals and animal uses in religious practices.
The Human Use of Animals reports the facts about some of the most compelling and difficult issues about animal welfare that confront society today. Fully revised and with four new chapters, the 16 case studies in the present volume explore a variety of controversies about the human uses of animals that have emerged over the last 40 years or so. The book begins with a lengthy exploration of applicable ethical theory. It then presents the facts of the 16 cases, followed in each case by analysis of pertinent theoretical and practical ethical issues. This volume offers a discussion of controversies within a range of contexts that includes biomedical, behavioural, and wildlife research, cosmetic safety testing, education, entertainment (zoos and circuses), the food industry, commerce, companion animals and animal uses in religious practices.
Preface Introduction
1. Moral Issues about Animals Farm Animals
2. Humane Housing for Hogs
3. Veal Crates and Human Palates
4. What is a Chicken Worth? Animals for Entertainment
5. The Sport of Rooster Fighting
6. Winky and Wanda at the Detroit Zoo
7. Ringling Brother's Big Cats Companion Animals
8. Cosmetic Surgery for Dogs Religious Use of Animals
9. Animal Sacrifice as Religious Ritual Endangered Species
10. Bonobos: Humans' Closest Relatives Face Extinction Biomedical
Research and Cosmetic Testing
11. Head-Injury Experiments on Primates at the University of
Pennsylvania
12. What Does the Public Have a Right to Know?
13. Can There Be Cruelty-Free Cosmetic Testing? Behavioral
Research
14. Monkeys without Mothers
15. The Experimetnal Study of Animal Aggression Wildlife
Research
16. Killing a Vagrant Bird for a Museum Collection Educational Use
of Animals
17. Should Frog Dissection Continue? Index
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