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Animal Welfare
Richard P. Haynes
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Description for Animal Welfare
Paperback. This book challenges the accepted distinction between animal welfarists and animal liberationists. It provides a unique and hitherto undocumented history of the animal care and animal welfare movement. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 296.
Members of the “animal 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 “sentimental” 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 “sympathetically” 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 ... Read more
Members of the “animal 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 “sentimental” 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 “sympathetically” 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048179343
SKU
V9789048179343
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Animal Welfare
From the reviews: "Remarkably well-researched, philosophically reflective, and thought-provoking book … . The value of Haynes’s book lies in its superbly documented insistence that it is morally incumbent upon us to expropriate animal welfare from the narrow and self-serving definition widely disseminated by the animal science welfare community … . Richard Haynes has written a genuinely important ... Read more