Farm animal welfare : social, bioethical, and research issues /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ames :
Iowa State University Press,
1995.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The social and bioethical background
- The new social ethics for animals
- Personal ethics and social ethics
- Traditional social ethics and the treatment of animals
- The inadequacy of traditional ethics
- The rise of the new ethic
- The nature of the emerging ethic: Beyond cruelty
- Evidence for the presence of the new ethic
- The relevance of the new social ethic to agriculture
- Welfare research and scientific ideology
- Scientific and producer attitudes toward animal welfare
- Can animal sufferring be assessed scientifically?
- What sorts of research should be undertaken?
- How, morally, ought welfare research be conducted?
- Animal welfare and genetic engineering.
- Research issues in farm animal welfare
- The beef industry
- Welfare issues in ranching
- Branding
- Castration
- Dehorning
- Cancer eye
- Cattle handling
- Transportation
- Downer cattle
- Slaughter
- Gomer bulls
- Feedlot problems
- The swine industry
- Swine behavior
- Confinement of sows.
- Modification of existing systems
- Development of new systems
- Looking at traditional systems
- Farrowing crates
- Other sow welfare problems
- Piglet welfare
- Grower-finishers
- Handling and transport
- Other issues
- The dairy industry
- Ethograms for cattle
- Calf welfare
- Welfare issues of cows
- Future technology
- The veal industry
- Welfare problems in current systems
- Research issues
- The poultry industry
- Welfare issues in battery-cage egg production
- Improving hen welfare
- Changing the animal
- Cage modification
- Alternative systems
- Problems in broiler welfare
- Handling, transportation, and slaughter of poultry.