What Should We Do About Animal Welfare?

Animal welfare is an issue that concerns us all. Recent advances in scientific understanding of welfare and proposals for ways of keeping animals have not fully reached the public domain. This book takes an informative approach aimed at raising the level of public debate and emphasising even though decisions are complex and compromise may sometimes be necessary, action can and should be taken now to improve animal welfare. Michael Appleby has been awarded the Universities Federation of Animal Welfare (UFAW) Hulme Fellowship to write this book.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Dedication.
Chapter 1 Noah′s New Ark: Why should we do anything?
Chapter 2 Humans, animals and machines: Understanding animal welfare.
Chapter 3 One big happy family: Differences between animals.
Chapter 4 To have and to hold: Keeping and killing animals.
Chapter 5 Made in our image: Selection and modification of animals.
Chapter 6 Home is where the heart is: Housing and environments.
Chapter 7 Give and take: Animal treatment.
Chapter 8 Buying power: Individual action.
Chapter 9 Votes and lobbies: Action by society.
Appendix Some Useful Addresses.
Index.