Human issues in animal agriculture /
Animal rights
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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College Station, TX :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2000]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Texas A & M University agriculture series ;
no. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The matter of issues
- Issues in animal agriculture
- Issues and knowledge
- This book
- Pt. 1. A whole systems analysis
- Agricultural systems
- Control of agricultural systems
- Varieties of agriculture
- Traditional agriculture
- Intensively managed systems
- Alternative systems
- Risks
- Constraints
- Animal agricultures
- Why an animal agriculture?
- Systems and issues
- Notes
- Ethical and value issues
- Examples of developing ethical issues: food-people-world environment and food production
- The goals and forms of agriculture
- Meanings of ethics
- Ethical theories
- Moral reasoning
- Reflective equilibrium
- Values and attitudes
- Agricultural values
- Note
- Institutional factors in animal agriculture
- Education and expertise
- Governmental activities
- Social organization and structure
- The market
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Laws, politics, and planning: the process of power
- Lawmaking
- The U.S. Congress and other legislatures
- Intervention of the legislative process
- Internal political tactics and strategies
- The diffusion of agricultural power
- Private interests and public policy
- Public interest groups
- The process of power
- Planning
- The planning process
- Developing country issues
- External forces
- Conclusion
- Regulation
- Governmental regulation
- Private sector regulation
- Politics and regulation
- Role of science and scientists in regulatory policy
- Regulation of biotechnology
- Animal care
- Nutrition labeling
- From quality to safety
- Confined animal feeding operations (CAFO)
- Endangered species
- The regulatory landscape
- Notes
- Pt. 2. The issues
- Risk
- Range of risks
- Carcinogenic and anticarcinogenic substances
- Food-borne microbial diseases
- Spongiform encephalopathies
- Antimicrobials
- Animal growth promoters
- Biotechnology
- Food and society
- Political values, interests, and the perception of risk - who shall decide?
- Risk and decision makers
- Conceptions of risk
- Case study: a contextual evaluation of risk
- Case study: a contextual evaluation of genetically modified organisms
- Conclusion
- From agrarianism to sustainability
- Agrarian evolution
- The agrarian issue
- Sustainable agriculture
- Varieties of sustainability
- Animal agriculture
- Ethics and values of sustainability
- What do we make of this?
- Notes
- Land use
- Values and interests
- Land use, human relationships, and animal agriculture
- Animal agricultures and human neighbors
- The waste stream
- Rangelands, public and private
- Property rights
- Right to farm
- Impact of U.S. federal policy on private land use
- Land rights, international
- Practical considerations
- Can there be a unified concept?
- Notes
- Animal agriculture and climatic factors
- The issues
- Weather, climate, and animal agriculture
- Variations in weather and climate
- Climate and trade in grain for livestock
- Risk and uncertainty and management of the animal environment
- Global climate change
- Animal agriculture's impact on climate
- Overgrazing and desertificaton
- Conclusion
- The well-being of agricultural animals
- Intensive animal production systems
- Use of animals in research
- Policy perceptions and animal welfare rights
- Moral philosophy and animal welfare and animal rights
- Philosophical ethics
- Contemporary philosophy and the animal welfare debate
- Animal welfare or animal rights?: the rhetorical debate
- Plurality of reasons and values
- Animal awareness
- Animal stress and distress
- Definition of animal welfare
- Public policy and legislation
- Animal protection movement
- Conclusion: the issues
- Notes
- Food and society
- Attitudes and culture
- Food habits do change
- The forces of change
- Economic issues
- Food choices and the concern about health
- Behavioral changes
- The message and the marketplace
- Malnutrition and poverty
- Vegetarianism
- The arguments of animal agriculture
- The arguments about vegetarianism
- The arguments of nutritional science
- Nutrition policy
- The arguments of animal agriculture - redux
- Additional thought
- Note
- Competition for resources
- The origins of the issues
- Elements of the competition
- Energy in animal agriculture
- Concepts of energy issues
- Perspectives on energy
- Efficiency of animal production
- Attitudes
- Food security
- Food for humans or feed for animals?
- Food for humans and feed for animals - the developing country condition
- People-animal interdependence
- Alternatives
- Public policy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Science and scholarship revisited
- Development of agricultural research in the United States
- Construction of science for animal agriculture
- Theoretical perspectives
- Integrative studies
- Implementing integrative research
- Public interest research
- Uncertainty, risk, and interest
- Implications
- Conclusion
- Notes.