Animal Welfare: Understanding Sentient Minds and Why It Matters

By John Webster

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This book explores the concept of sentience and the development of sentient minds throughout the animal kingdom. The work provides improved definitions and analysis of the ideas of sentience, cognition, and consciousness, along with evidence of advanced mental formulation in birds, fish, and invertebrates. Considerations between humans and animals are also discussed, such as outcome-based ethics in relation to humans’ duties of care and the rights and wrongs of domestication. The work is divided into three parts and covers key topics such as:

  • Specifics of animal sentience, from pain and suffering, to fear and dread, all the way to animals’ social life and the comfort/joy/hope/despair they experience
  • What we know about the sentience of different classes of animals in the waters, air, savannah/plains, and forests
  • Considerations on human interactions based on animal sentience, including death (killing), animal farms, animals in laboratories, wild animals in captivity, and animals in sports and entertainment
  • Analysis on what humans can learn from animals based on what we know about their varying levels of sentience

Full details are available here from UFAW.

ISBN: 978-1-119-85706-8

186 pages

£89.99


Year: 2022
This page was updated on 28 November 2022

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