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"This book offers an up-to-date examination of the nature and development of animal theology. It considers what animal theology is and how it challenges, and is challenged by, liberation and ecological theology. At the heart of the work is a critical engagement with the Brazilian ecotheologian Leonardo Boff. Clair Linzey addresses ideas that originate from the papal encyclical Laudato Si' and considers how Pope Francis is developing an animal friendly tradition within Catholicism. Exploring new vistas in animal theology, this volume makes a valuable to contribution to debates on how religion should be concerned with animals and the environment. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to know the current state of debate with animal theology and its effects on the wider Christian community"--

This is the first multidisciplinary book that addresses the ethics of fur. Whatever might have been true of the past, the production of fur is now morally problematic in terms of both necessity and suffering. There is no necessity in killing animals for nonessential purposes, such as adornment, fashion, or vanity. The argument for utility simply doesn't hold up. Alternative clothing is now readily available, enduring, and less costly. Worse still, since we know that the animals exploited are sentient, causing them suffering or making animals liable to suffering is arguably intrinsically wrong. The purpose of this volume is to open up and advance further the ethical, political, and specifically legislative endeavors now moving at pace and to encourage the anti-fur movement. That said, there is much to learn from this book about the history, culture, and political arguments for and against fur that should interest scholars and students, as well as those engaged on either side of the debate. It is not common for academics to engage with pressing and contentious moral issues, and we pay tribute to our eighteen contributors for leading the way

1. Introduction -- 2. Brief Overview: Fur Factory Farming Worldwide -- 3. Legislation on Fur Factory Farming -- 4. The Putative Justifications -- 5. The Case against "Welfur" -- 6. Fur Farming and Public Health -- 7. The Ethical Case Against -- 8. Summary and Overall Conclusion.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Vegetarianism as ethical protest -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Killing sentient beings -- 1.1. Why foods derived from animals are not necessary for human health -- Introduction -- Vitamin B12 and the history of vegan diets -- Other potential nutritional issues -- A longer, healthier life? -- But what about … -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1.2. Against killing "happy" animals -- Introduction -- The prima facie case: killing animals harms them -- Meat-eating as an important component of a good human life? -- The replaceability argument -- Utilitarian responses to replaceability -- Theory-neutral arguments from the interests at stake at the time of killing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1.3. Food ethics and justice toward animals -- Introduction -- The animal question as a political question -- The case for a political theory including animals' interests -- From theory to practice: The case for a virtue-based approach in animal ethics -- Respect for animals as the result of a way of being -- Concluding considerations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1.4. Animals as honorary humans -- Introduction -- Diamond -- The strict vegan's principle -- Norms and relationships -- Why strict veganism? -- A caveat and a worry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1.5. Nonhuman animals' desires and their moral relevance -- The behaviorist's argument -- Language, concepts, and nonhuman animals -- Temporal extension and the desires of nonhuman animals -- The moral significance of theoretical nonhuman animals' desires -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 1.6. Why vegetarianism wasn't on the menu in early Greece -- Notes -- Bibliography

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Oxford: The Home of Controversy about Animals -- Part 1 Normalizing the Unthinkable The Ethics of Using Animals in Research -- Introduction to the Report -- 1.1 The Scale of the Problem.. -- 1.2 The Old Debate -- 1.3 The New Scientific Critiques -- 1.4 The Changing Ethical Paradigm -- 1.5 The Putative Justifications -- 1.6 The Problem of Institutionalization -- 1.7 The Failure of Control -- 1.8 Undercover Investigations -- 1.9 Consideration of Counterarguments -- 1.10 Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Part 2 The Supporting Essays -- 2.1 Animal Experimentation in Classical Antiquity -- 2.2 Gender and the Animal Experiments Controversy in Nineteenth-Century America -- 2.3 Is "Necessity" a Useful Concept in Animal Research Ethics? -- 2.4 Science Fiction and Science Fact: Ethics and Nonhuman Animal Experiments -- 2.5 Harms versus Benefits: A Practical Critique of Utilitarian Calculations -- 2.6 Utilitarian Benefit and Uncertainty under Emergent Systems -- 2.7 Do Moral Principles Permit Experimenting on Nonconsenting Beings? -- 2.8 Can Animal Experiments Be Ethically Acceptable When They Are Not Scientifically Defensible? -- 2.9 A Rawlsian Case against Animal Experimentation -- 2.10 The Harms of Captivity within Laboratories and Afterward -- 2.11 When Harry Meets Harry: An Ethical Assessment of Harry Harlow's Maternal Deprivation Experiments -- About the Editors, Contributors, and Members of the Working Group -- Index

This handbook provides an in-depth examination of the practical and theoretical issues within the emerging field of animal ethics. Leading experts from around the globe offer insights into cutting edge topics as diverse as killing for food, religious slaughter, animal companions, aquariums, genetic manipulation, hunting for sport and bullfighting. Including contributions from Lisa Johnson on the themes of human dominance, Thomas White on the ethics of captivity, Mark Bernstein on the ethics of killing and Kay Peggs on the causation of suffering, this handbook offers an authoritative reference work for contemporary applied animal ethics. Progressive in approach, the authors explore the challenges that animal ethics poses both conceptually and practically to traditional understandings of human-animal relations. Key Features: · Structured in four parts to examine the ethics of control, the ethics of captivity, the ethics of killing and the ethics of causing suffering · Interdisciplinary approach including philosophical, historical, scientific, legal, anthropological, religious, psychological and sociological perspectives · Focused treatment of practical issues such as animals in farming, zoos and animal experimentation The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics is an essential resource for those with an interest in the ethics of modern-day treatment of animals as well as scholars, researchers and advanced students in zoology, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies and sociology.

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

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.

Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Challenge of Animal Ethics -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Bibliography -- Section I The Ethics of Control -- 2 Introduction: The Ethics of Control -- Self-Interests of Animals -- Types of Control -- Animals' Self-Interests Matter in Ethical Analysis -- Ethics as Restraint on Behavior -- Discussions Concerning the Ethics of Control -- 3 Animal Justice as Non-Domination -- The Legal Statuses of Property and Person and the Possession of Individual Rights -- Animals' Current Legal Status as Property -- Legal Protections for Animal Welfare -- Modifications of Animals' Legal Status -- Could Nonhuman Animals Be Conferred the Legal Status of Person? -- The Theoretical Possibility of Modifying the Legal Status of Animals -- Advocating in Favor of a Modification of Animals' Legal Status -- Should Nonhuman Animals Be Conferred the Legal Status of Person with the Corresponding Legal Rights? -- What if Animal Welfare Really Mattered? -- Being Property Is Being Dominated -- Concluding Remarks on the Morality of the Control Humans Have Over Other Animals -- Bibliography -- 4 Rethinking the Ethic of Human Dominance -- Possibilities Within the Kantian Tradition -- Dominion and Animal Welfare -- The Animal Rights Challenge -- The Hunter-Gatherer Ethic -- An Ethic of Human-Animal Relations -- Bibliography -- 5 Chain of Fools: The Language of Power -- Paradox -- Social Construction and the Power of Language -- Animals and Language -- Ideology in Language -- Machines and Product -- Science -- "Ownership" -- Purpose -- A World of Hierarchy -- Capitalism -- Ordinary Folk, Extraordinary Malice -- Another World -- Bibliography -- 6 Our Moral Duties to Ill and Aging Companion Animals -- Introduction -- Companion Animal Relationships