Are we pushing animals to their biological limits? : welfare and ethical implications / edited by Temple Grandin, Martin Whiting.

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"Stimulating and thought-provoking, this important new text looks at the welfare problems and philosophical and ethical issues that are caused by changes made to an animal's telos, behaviour and physiology, both positive and negative, to make them more productive or adapted for human uses. These cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grandin, Temple (Editor)
Whiting, Martin (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Boston, MA : CABI, [2018]
Subjects:
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animals > Effect of human beings on.
Physical Description:vii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: use new genetic technologies and animal breeding methods carefully to avoid problems / Temple Grandin
  • Domestication to dolly and beyond: a brief history of animal modification / Andrew Gardiner
  • Good for whom? Differences between human and animal enhancement / Sarah Chan
  • Working equids: the welfare of those worked to their limit / Melissa Upjohn and Kimberly Wells
  • Genetics and other technologies for increasing the productivity of cattle, sheep and pigs: welfare implications / Temple Grandin
  • Technologies for increasing the productivity of poultry: welfare implications / Stefan Gunnarsson
  • Selective breeding, cloning and gene editing of dogs and cats for appearance and performance traits / Rowena M.A. Packer
  • Methods to increase fish production: welfare and sustainability implications / Felicity Huntingford, Jimmy Turnbull and Sunil Kadri
  • Welfare concerns in genetically modified laboratory mice and rats / Nikki Osborne, David Morton and Jan-Bas Prins
  • Cloning, editing and GMO's for animal enhancement / Elisabeth Ormandy
  • From bionic cat to superdog: ethical challenges of advances prosthetic technology in Veterinary Medicine / Manuel Magalhães-Sant'Ana
  • Animal welfare and the brave new world of modifying animals / Donald M. Broom
  • A duty to the enhanced, not a duty to enhance: welfare responsibilities associated with domestication / Stephen May
  • Pressing animals beyond their biological limits / Bernard Rollin
  • Concluding: animals pushed to their limits / Martin Whiting.