Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden

Man controls and dominates the habitat of most animals, both domestic and wild and there is a need for a pragmatic, workable approach to the problem of reconciling animal welfare with economic forces and the needs of man. It is the author's contention that much of the current philosophical discussion of animal welfare is misdirected now that it is possible to measure to some extent what animals think and feel and how much they can appreciate their quality of life. The book deals with farm animals, pets, wild animals and laboratory animals and dicusses their environmental requirements, fear and stress, their response to pain, injury, disease and death, behaviour and aggression, and the implications of biotechnology and genetic engineering. Finally, the book tries to reconcile reverence for life with the inescapability of killing and reviews the prospects of preserving and enhancing quality of life for animals through legislations, education, economic and moral incentives.

First Edition. 12 illustrations. 288 pages. Paperback. Published by Blackwell Science, now known as Blackwell Publishing. A review of this book is available in Laboratory Animals, April 1996, Volume 30 (2). John Webster is also the author of Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden (published in 2005 as a paperback, ISBN: 1405118776). Table of Contents.

ISBN: Paperback: 978-0-632-03928-9

Price: Paperback: £51.50