Animal welfare in a changing world
β Scribed by Butterworth, Andrew
- Publisher
- CABI
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 293
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare today and tomorrow. The key issues range from the welfare of fur and fashion animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability and climate change, to animals in tourism, rodeos, races and fiestas. The human-animal welfare impact is explored, including human impact on marine mammals, Β Read more...
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content: Introduction / Andy Butterworth --
Habitat loss: changing how animals think? / Paul C. Paquet and Shelley M. Alexander --
Whale entanglement - a 21st-century challenge in the ocean / Sarah Dolman, Regina Asmutis-Silvia and Conor Ryan --
The welfare effects of PCBs in the ocean / Mark Peter Simmonds --
The fence - the welfare implications of the loss of the true wild / Adam G. Hart --
Trophy hunting and animal welfare / Mark Jones and Chris Draper --
Carry on carrion: the fall of the scavenger / Maria Panagiotopoulou, Panagiotis Azmanis, Rigas Tsiakiris and Kalliopi Stara --
Restoring what we have destroyed: animal welfare aspects of wildlife conservation, reintroduction and rewilding programmes / Charlotte Berg --
Intensification - the pressures of volume / Joyce D'Silva --
Welfare challenges: feedlot cattle / Miriam Martin and Temple Grandin --
Public opinion and the retailer: driving forces in animal welfare? / Henry Buller --
Vertebrate/invertebrate - when do we start caring? / Michael J. Kuba --
Animal welfare at slaughter - a level global playing field? / Paul Whittington --
Precision livestock farming: the future of livestock welfare monitoring and management? / TomaΜs Norton and Daniel Berckmans --
The paradoxical world of the dog / John Bradshaw and Elly Hiby --
Animal experience of domestication / Xavier Boivin --
Better to have lived and lost - the concept of a life worth living / James Yeates --
If fishes feel pain, what should we do? / Victoria A. Braithwaite --
Anthropomorphism: faulty thinking or useful tool? / Charles Foster --
Speciesism / Stijn Bruers --
Longevity and brevity - is death a welfare issue? / Andy Butterworth and James Yeates --
Promises and challenges of big data associated with automated dairy cow welfare assessment / Kristof Hermans, Geert Opsomer, Bonny Van Ranst and Miel Hostens --
Animal welfare: information in a changing world / Harry J. Blokhuis --
Licensed to harm / Rebecca Aldworth --
Animal watching in tourism / Taryn Glass and David A. Fennell --
The rise of the inclusive approach to change in animal welfare / Philip Lymbery --
Animal welfare protection in the face of shrinking public resource / Sophia Hepple.
β¦ Subjects
Animal welfare.
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