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"This title examines animal experimentation including drug and cosmetic testing and medical research. Legislation regulating the process is discussed as are opposing viewpoints and alternatives such as human volunteers and computer models. A timeline, glossary, index, and historic and color photos supplement easy-to-read text. An infographic shows how the reader can learn more and get involved"--Publisher's website

For thousands of years, in the myths and folktales of people around the world, animals have spoken in human tongues. Western and non-Western literary and folkloric traditions are filled with both speaking animals, some of whom even narrate or write their own autobiographies. Animals speak, famously, in children's stories and in cartoons and films, and today, social networking sites and blogs are both sites in which animals—primarily pets—write about their daily lives and interests. Speaking for Animals is a compilation of chapters written from a variety of disciplines that attempts to get a handle on this cross cultural and longstanding tradition of animal speaking and writing. It looks at speaking animals in literature, religious texts, poetry, social networking sites, comic books, and in animal welfare materials and even library catalogs, and addresses not just the "whys" of speaking animals, but the implications, for the animals and for ourselves.

No room on the agenda -- Seduced by words -- The trouble with anthropomorphism -- Why consciousness is harder than you think -- Consciousness unexplained -- Emotional turmoil -- Animal welfare without consciousness -- The two pillars of animal welfare -- What animals want -- Animal welfare for a small planet

"Presents various points-of-view and key players in the public discourse on the use of animals for testing and research, animal research as big business, how legislation protects some animals and how it fails. Contemporary opinions from across the political and cultural spectrum are represented"--

This thought-provoking book will ask what it is to be human, what to be animal, and what are the natures of the relationships between them. This is accomplished with philosophical and ethical discussions, scientific evidence and dynamic theoretical approaches. Attitudes to Animals will also encourage us to think not only of our relationships to non-human animals, but also of those to other, human, animals. This book provides a foundation that the reader can use to make ethical choices about animals. It will challenge readers to question their current views, attitudes and perspectives on animals, nature and development of the human-animal relationship. Human perspectives on the human-animal relationships reflect what we have learned, together with spoken and unspoken attitudes and assumptions, from our families, societies, media, education and employment

In Hungary, the first Act on Animal Protection, which aimed at handling and respecting animals as living creatures capable of feelings and suffering and thus deserving and entitled to protection, was adopted in 1998. Based on this, the Act contains several regulations which ensure that animals are protected against all possible kinds of avoidable physical or mental harm. Furthermore, it prohibits and imposes sanctions for any treatment that causes animals unnecessary suffering. The present study, outlooking at the end of this paper to the case for whether animals can have subjective rights, undertakes to focus on such regulations with the intent of verifying that the current Hungarian regulation harmonizes with modern European trends; in fact, to a certain extent (e.g. by applying criminal sanctions for animal torturing), it even provides guidelines for those trends.

Humans not only create links with members of their own species but also for years have developed close relationships with beings of other species, these relationships began as a mutually beneficial contract between both parties, however ended up filling the world of humans Of meanings deeper than those of the simple utility obtained from animals. The assisted therapy with animals is a proposal of intervention to different pathologies
both physical and mental, which is implemented through various modalities such as Dolphin therapy, equine therapy and therapy. Being guided by professionals of different areas what makes of this an inter and multidisciplinary team work.

Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on research into animal cognition and subscribe to strong positions regarding animal minds. Whereas philosophers interested in the question of animal minds sometimes draw ethical conclusions from the positions they argue for. In spite of such overlaps, these two areas of research have grown up separately. One reason for this separation stems from the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy. The principal aim of this anthology is to build bridges between the fields and different philosophical approaches of animal ethics and of animal minds and cognition. Rezension »Der Band zeigt, wie sich das dilettantische Zurechtschneidern des Geistes der Tiere verhindern lässt. Die Auswahl der Arbeiten [...] bezeugt das konstruktive Potential der postmodernen Philosophie.« Philipp von Gall, TIERethik, 6/8 (2014) »Ein lesenswertes Buch.« Kochen ohne Knochen, 15/2 (2014) Reviewed in: Fellbeißer, 10 (2013) www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 21.01.2014, Dieter Bach fair-fish, 13.02.2014, Heinzpeter Studer Reihe Human-Animal Studies - Band 3.

Preliminary Materials /Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong -- Bestiary: An Introduction /Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong -- Chapter One. Shame, Levinas's Dog, Derrida's Cat (And Some Fish) -- Chapter Two. Understanding Avian Intelligence /Alphonso Lingis -- Chapter Three. What Do Animals Dream Of ? Or King Kong As Darwinian Screen Animal /Barbara Creed -- Chapter Four. "No Circus Without Animals"?: Animal Acts And Ideology In The Virtual Circus /Tanja Schwalm -- Chapter Five. Farming Images: Animal Rights And Agribusiness In The Field Of Vision /Philip Armstrong -- Chapter Six. The Mark Of The Beast: Inscribing 'Animality' Through Extreme Body Modification /Annie Potts -- Chapter Seven. Bill Hammond's Parliament Of Foules /Allan Smith -- Chapter Eight. Extinction Stories: Performing Absence(s) /Ricardo De Vos -- Chapter Nine. Australia Imagined In Biological Control /Catharina Landström -- Chapter Ten. Tails Within Tales /Brian Boyd -- Chapter Eleven. Pigs, People And Pigoons /Helen Tiffin -- Chapter . Twelve Walking The Dog /Ian Wedde -- Index /Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong.

Preface: What's New in this Edition? -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Bringing Animals to the Center -- Part I: The Human-Animal Tribe. 1. The Human Point of View -- 2. Learning from Animals -- Part II: Living with Contradiction. 3. Speaking for Dogs -- 4. Pet Ownership on the Street -- 5. Animal Abuse and Adolescents -- 6. The Institutional Self of Shelter Workers -- 7. Dirty Work and Good Intentions -- 8. Systems of Meaning in Primate Labs -- 9. Making News about Animals -- 10. Boundary Work in Nazi Germany -- Part III: Paradox and Change. 11. The Sociozoologic Scale -- Conclusion: The Uses, Abuses, and Limits of Culture.

"Vom Mittelalter bis in die frühe Neuzeit findet sich in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern das Phänomen der formal rechtlichen Behandlung von Tieren als Straftäter und Prozessparteien. Dabei lassen sich zwei Grundformen unterscheiden: Tierstrafen richteten sich gegen domestizierte 'Nutztiere'. Sie wurden von weltlichen Gerichten verhängt, hatten ihren Anlass typischerweise in der Tötung eines Menschen durch das Tier und bestanden in der Regel in der Todesstrafe. Tierprozesse verhandelten die Taten von 'wilden', als 'Schädlingen' auftretenden Tieren. Sie fanden vor kirchlichen Gerichten statt, die darüber befanden, ob Maßnahmen wie z.B. die Exkommunikation ergriffen werden dürften und sollten, um die Schädlinge zu vertreiben. In beiden Fällen waren die Verfahren offenbar ganz ernst gemeint und vollzogen sich formal ganz wie solche gegen menschliche Angeklagte. Intuitiv erscheint dies als Ausdruck einer 'Personifizierung' von Tieren und einer mittlerweile vermeintlich überwundenen, geradezu grotesk anmutenden Irrationalität. Ein genauerer Blick auf die Tierstrafen und -prozesse sowie, vergleichsweise, das moderne System der tierschutzrechtlich geregelten industrialisierten Tierausbeutung offenbart jedoch, dass die moderne Gesellschaft keineswegs eine rationalere Konzeption des Status der Tiere entwickelt hat. Der Widerspruch hat sich nur ins Gegenteil verkehrt: Während die Kontrolle der Tiere in den Tierstrafen und -prozessen es erforderlich machte, die Tiere als Rechtssubjekte zu konzipieren, obwohl sie der zeitgenössischen Ansicht zufolge moralisch-rechtliche Objekte waren, bedingt die gewaltsame Kontrolle der machtlosen Nutztiere der Moderne die Negation des Status der Tiere als Rechtssubjekte, der ihnen der Logik der Moral und des Rechts zufolge tatsächlich zukommt." (Autorenreferat)

From the pet that we live with and care for, to news items such as animal cloning, and the use of various creatures in film, television and advertising, animals are a constant presence in our lives.Animal is a timely overview of the many ways in which we live with animals, and assesses many of the paradoxes of our relationships with them: for example, why is the pet that sits by the dinner table never for eating? Examining novels such as Charlotte's Web, films such as Old Yeller and Babe, science and advertising, fashion and philosophy, Animal also evaluates the ways in which we think about an