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Animal Trade, The: Evolution, Ethics and Implications
Clive Phillips
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Description for Animal Trade, The: Evolution, Ethics and Implications
Paperback. Controversial and thought-provoking, this text focuses on the trade in live and dead animals and animal parts. It examines the facts and figures to quantify the scope of the animal trade, concentrating mainly on farm animals, but also covering captive wildlife and companion animals BIC Classification: MZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 466.
Trade is an inevitable part of human activity and evolution, but when it involves animals there are important ethical issues that have to be considered. Animal trade is often for economic reasons only, and may be hard to justify ethically. There are significant welfare and environmental costs to animals and human society that must be carefully evaluated before such a trade is sanctioned. Controversial and thought-provoking, this text focuses on the trade in live and dead animals and animal parts. It examines the facts and figures to quantify the scope of the animal trade, concentrating mainly on farm animals, but ... Read more
Trade is an inevitable part of human activity and evolution, but when it involves animals there are important ethical issues that have to be considered. Animal trade is often for economic reasons only, and may be hard to justify ethically. There are significant welfare and environmental costs to animals and human society that must be carefully evaluated before such a trade is sanctioned. Controversial and thought-provoking, this text focuses on the trade in live and dead animals and animal parts. It examines the facts and figures to quantify the scope of the animal trade, concentrating mainly on farm animals, but ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
CABI Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
466g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Wallingford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786391476
SKU
V9781786391476
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-13
About Clive Phillips
Clive J. C. Phillips is with University of Queensland, Australia.
Reviews for Animal Trade, The: Evolution, Ethics and Implications
The Animal Trade provides an accurate, comprehensive and balanced description of past and current practices, human concerns about these practices and the impact of these practices on the animals themselves. Clive Phillips has given us, in very readable form, a book that casts a great deal of much needed light onto the debate.
John Webster
John Webster