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.

Michael Calvert Appleby OBE is a British ethologist and animal welfare scientist, especially for farm animals. He obtained a BSc in Zoology at the University of Bristol and a PhD in Animal Behaviour at King's College, Cambridge.

Preface

vi

Dedication

viii

Noah's New Ark: Why should we do anything?

1

(18)

Humans, animals and machines: Understanding animal welfare

19

(26)

One big happy family: Differences between animals

45

(20)

To have and to hold: Keeping and killing animals

65

(22)

Made in our image: Selection and modification of animals

87

(26)

Home is where the heart is: Housing and environments

113

(16)

Give and take: Animal treatment

129

(20)

Buying power: Individual action

149

(18)

Votes and lobbies: Action by society

167

(19)

Appendix Some Useful Addresses

186

(2)

Index

188

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What Should We Do about Animal Welfare?

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