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Rowan et al.'s target article is an outstanding review of some of the history of the science of sentience, but one would have liked to see a much stronger "call to action." We don't need any more data to know that many other animals are sentient beings whose lives must be protected from harm in a wide variety of contexts. It is not anti-science to want more action on behalf of other animals right now.

Rowan et al.'s target article is an outstanding review of some of the history of the science of sentience, but one would have liked to see a much stronger "call to action." We don't need any more data to know that many other animals are sentient beings whose lives must be protected from harm in a wide variety of contexts. It is not anti-science to want more action on behalf of other animals right now.

In this brief essay I take a broad perspective on the notion of unraveling welfare and consider animals living in different conditions ranging from caged individuals in laboratories and zoos to free-living or almost free-living wildlife. I'll step outside of the laboratory because billions of animals are slaughtered for food in an industry that tortures them on the way to their reprehensible deaths and at the places at which they are slaughtered. Furthermore, government agencies around the world kill millions of free-living and wild animals because they're supposedly "pests". This is a different sort of essay but I hope it will stimulate people to rethink what we mean by the phrase "animal welfare" in a broad and constructive ways because the way people interact with animals in laboratories is influenced by how they see animals in other contexts including outside of caged environments. Unraveling animal welfare means unscrambling our interrelationships with other animals by asking difficult questions about who we think we are, who we think "they" are, what we think we know, what we actually know. I'll argue that "good welfare" isn't "good enough" because existing laws and regulations still allow animals to be subjected to enduring pain and suffering and death "in the name of science", which really means "in the name of humans". We must do better for all animals and we can do so by taking into account the perspective of the each and every individual who we use for research, education, amusement, and for food and clothing. We must also consider individuals who we house in zoos and move around as if they're pieces of furniture, for example, when zoos "redecorate" themselves because they need an "ambassador" for a given species or because an individual no longer brings in money. And we must also consider the fate of individuals when we "redecorate nature" by moving animals here and there for our and not their benefit; is it permissible to trade off the life of an individual for the "good of their species"? The ...

In wildlife conservation, rewilding refers to restoring habitats and creating corridors between preserved lands to allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of the world's leading animal experts and activists, here applies rewilding to human attitudes.

"Whether writing for a term paper, looking up organizations involving animal rights, or researching information as an animal lover, this is a resource chock full of information on animal rights and welfare. Coverage of issues, controversies, significant historical figures, and ideologies related to the treatment of animals are comprehensive. The essays cover a wide spectrum from the founding of the ASPCA and trapping, to religion and animals. The directory of organizations serves practical purposes, such as where to obtain a three-dimensional model of the frog for educators and both high school and college students".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA

Cover Disziplinierte Tiere? -- Inhalt -- Vorwort Marc Bekoff -- Vorwort Kurt Kotrschal -- Einleitung. Disziplinierte Tiere? -- Bildungswissenschaft. Auf dem Weg zu einer posthumanistischen Pädagogik? -- Gender Studies und Feminismus. Von der Befreiung der Frauen zur Befreiung der Tiere -- Geschichtswissenschaft. Von einer Geschichte mit Tieren zu einer Tiergeschichte -- Kunstgeschichte. Disziplinäre Wachstumsprognosen einer marginalisierten Themenstellung -- Linguistik. Das Tier in der Sprache -- Literaturwissenschaft. Die Befreiung ästhetischer Tiere -- Philosophie. Tierethik und die Human-Animal Studies -- Psychologie. Von Mensch zu Tier -- Rechtswissenschaft. Vom Recht über Tiere zu den Legal Animal Studies -- Soziologie. Humansoziologische Tiervergessenheit oder das Unbehagen an der Mensch-Tier-Sozialität -- Theologie. Ambivalenzen einer Beziehung - und ein Plädoyer für eine antispeziesistische Theologie -- Volkskunde/Europäische Ethnologie. Zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Mensch-Tier-Verhältnisses und der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen -- Zoologie. Von »Mensch und Tier« zu »Menschen und andere Tiere« -- Informationen zu den Autor_innen.