Animal Welfare

by Haynes, Richard P.

• ISBN13: 9781402086182
• ISBN10: 1402086180
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-04
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Members of the 'œanimal welfare science community', which includes both scientists and philosophers, have illegitimately appropriated the concept of animal welfare by claiming to have given a scientific account of it that is more objectively valid than the more 'œsentimental' account given by animal liberationists. This strategy has been used to argue for merely limited reform in the use of animals. This strategy was initially employed as a way of 'œsympathetically' responding to the abolitionist claims of anti-vivisectionists, who objected to the use of animals in research. It was subsequently used by farm animal scientists.The primarily reformist (as opposed to abolitionist) goals of this community make the false assumption that there are conditions under which animals may be raised and slaughtered for food or used as models in scientific research that are ethically acceptable. The tendency of the animal welfare science community is to accept this assumption as their framework of inquiry, and thus to discount certain practices as harmful to the interests of the animals that they affect. For example, animal welfare is conceptualized is such a way that death does not count as harmful to the interests of animal, nor prolonged life a benefit.

Table of Contents

The Science of Laboratory Animal Care and Welfare
Introduction	p. 3
The Roots for the Emerging Science of Animal Welfare in Great Britain	p. 7
The Historical Roots of the Science of Laboratory Animal Welfare in the US	p. 13
Laboratory Animal Welfare Issues in the US Legislative and Regulatory History	p. 37
Mandated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees	p. 49
Do Regulators of Animal Welfare Need to Develop a Theory of Psychological Well-Being?	p. 57
Conclusion	p. 67
The Emergence of the Science of Food Animal Welfare Mandated by the Brambell Commission Report
Introduction	p. 71
Rollin's Theory of Animal Welfare and Its Ethical Implications	p. 79
Duncan and the Inclusion of Subjectivity	p. 87
Fraser on Animal Welfare, Science, and Ethics	p. 97
Appleby-Sandoe and the Human Welfare Model	p. 107
Nordenfelt and Nussbaum on Animal Welfare	p. 119
Conclusion to Part II	p. 127
Giving Animals What We Owe Them
Introduction to Part III	p. 133
The Fair Deal Argument	p. 135
A General Theory of Our Moral Obligations to Nonhuman Animals	p. 143
Conclusion: Competing Conceptions of Animal Welfare	p. 151
Index	p. 157
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