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History of companion animals and the companion animal sector -- The development and role of the veterinary and other professions in relation to companion animals -- Human attachment to companion animals -- Companion animal welfare -- Theories of companion animal ethics -- Breeding and acquiring companion animals -- Selective breeding -- Feeding - and the problem of obesity -- Companion animal training and behavioural problems -- Routine neutering of companion animals -- Performing convenience surgery : tail docking, ear cropping, debarking and declawing -- Treating ill animals, and end-of-life issues -- Unwanted and unowned companion animals -- Ethics and broader impacts of companion animals -- Other companions -- Companion animals and the future

Research ethics -- The ethical perspective -- The 3rs and good scientific practice -- Applying ethical thinking and social relevance -- Regulation and legislation : overview and background -- Public involvement : how and why? -- The future of animal research : guesstimates on technical and ethical developments -- New refine

Animal Ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in scientific research to the farming of animals for consumption. Animal Ethics: The Basics is an essential introduction to the key considerations surrounding the ethical treatment of animals. Taking a thematic approach, it outlines the current arguments from animal agency to the emergence of the 'political turn'. This book explores such questions as:Can animals think and do they suffer?What do we mean by speciesism?Are humans special?Can animals be poli.

1. Picturing animal ethics -- 2. Singer's utilitarianism -- 3. Regan on animal rights -- 4. Contract theories -- 5. What is so special about humans? -- 6. The Holocaust analogy -- 7. Abolitionism -- 8. Animals and the environment -- 9. The political turn -- 10. Conclusion.

This book is drawn from articles originally published in the Journal of Animal Ethics (JAE). Essays in the first section discuss aspects of veterinary oaths, how advances in animal cognition science factor into current ethical debates, and the rise of complementary and alternative veterinary medicine and its relationship to traditional veterinary medicine. The second section continues with an essay that addresses why veterinarians have an obligation to educate animal caregivers to look past 'cuteness' in order to treat all animals with dignity. The collection closes with three short sections focusing on animals in farming, trade, and research "areas where veterinarians encounter conflicts between their job and their duty to advocate and care for animals.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Veterinarians and Animal Ethics -- Professional Issues for Veterinarians -- 1. An Ethical Oath for Veterinarians -- 2. The Emergence of Veterinary Oaths: Social, Historical, and Ethical Considerations -- 3. Cognitive Relatives yet Moral Strangers? -- 4. Opening the Door: Non-veterinarians and the Practice of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine -- Understanding Cruelty to Companion Animals -- 5. An Evaluative Review of Theories Related to Animal Cruelty -- 6. Risk Factors for the Development of Animal Cruelty -- 7. The Neoteny Barrier: Seeking Respect for the Non-Cute -- Animal Farming -- 8. "Pets or Meat"? Ethics and Domestic Animals -- 9. Varieties of Harm to Animals in Industrial Farming -- 10. Old McDonald's Had a Farm: The Metaphysics of Factory Farming -- Trade in Animals -- 11. Australia and Live Animal Export: Wronging Nonhuman Animals -- 12. The Morality of the Reptile "Pet" Trade -- Animals in Research -- 13. Transgenic Animals, Biomedical Experiments, and "Progress" -- 14. Raising the Bar in the Justification of Animal Research -- About the Editors and the Contributors

Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection. Both sides of the debate are carefully analyzed, as the contributors examine how stakeholders persuade or fail to persuade audiences about the ethics of animal rights or the value of using animals

This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on the realities of current human-animal relationships, particularly those of humans with cows. Dharma, yoga, and bhakti paradigms serve as starting points for bringing Hindu—particularly Vaishnava Hindu—animal ethics into conversation with contemporary Western animal ethics. The author argues that a culture of bhakti—the inclusive, empathetic practice of spirituality centered in Krishna as the beloved cowherd of Vraja—can complement recently developed ethics-of-care thinking to create a solid basis for sustaining all kinds of cow care communities. ; Offers a focused insight into a key aspect of Hindu religious practice Integrates primary research and tertiary sources to give a multifaceted understanding of the intricacies of cow care practice Challenges conventional Western thought on cow care and its worldwide implications for animal ethics

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Animal Senses -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Animal Misothery and Theriophily -- 3 Animal Ethics Theories -- 4 Animal Captives -- 5 Animals at Work . . . and Leisure -- 6 Animal Combat and Competition -- 7 Animals Pursued for Sport and Subsistence -- 8 Wildlife Viewing -- 9 Animals as Food -- 10 The Animal Threat -- 11 Leadership Realities -- Theoretical Guidance (1) -- 12 Theoretical Guidance (2) -- 13 Conclusion -- References -- Index.