Animal Welfare : Limping Towards Eden
John. Webster
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2008.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (298 p.)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Facts and Values; 1.1 Husbandry and welfare; 1.2 Definitions of welfare; 1.3 Sentience; 1.4 The Five Freedoms and Provisions; 1.5 Ethics and values in animal welfare; 1.6 Human attitudes to animal welfare: desire and demand; 1.7 Limping towards Eden: stepping stones; 2 Challenge and Response; 2.1 Stress, adaptation and exhaustion; 2.2 The General Adaptation Syndrome; 2.3 Physiological stress: the alarm response; 2.4 Physiological responses to challenge: the cost of adaptation. - 2.5 Adaptation to cold stress: an example of habituation2.6 Exhaustion; 2.7 Behavioural responses to challenge; 2.8 Behavioural indices of good and bad welfare; 2.9 Integration of measures: triangulation; 3 Sentience, Sense and Suffering; 3.1 A sentient view of the world; 3.2 Motivation: the analysis of behavioural needs; 3.3 Altered and abnormal behaviour; 3.4 Mind and brain: the neurobiology of sensation and emotion; 3.5 More triangulation: design and interpretation of studies of animal feelings and motivation; 3.6 Sources of suffering. - 4 Husbandry and Welfare on the Farm: Assessment and Assurance4.1 Provisions and outcomes; 4.2 Tailoring QA schemes to individual needs; 4.3 Comparison of current schemes for assessing on-farm welfare; 4.4 Development of the Bristol protocol for animal-based welfare assessment; 4.5 The dairy cow protocol; 4.6 Development of welfare-based quality control procedures; 4.7 Implementation of welfare-based quality assurance and quality control; 5 Animals for Food: Industrialised Farming, Pigs and Poultry; 5.1 The industrialisation of livestock farming. - 5.2 Welfare problems inherent to factory farming5.3 Breeding animals fit for purpose; 5.4 Problems and progress in animal welfare: analysis of systems; 5.5 The welfare of pigs; 5.6 The welfare of laying hens; 5.7 The welfare of poultry reared for meat; 6 Animals for Food: Cattle and Other Ruminants; 6.1 The welfare of the dairy cow; 6.2 The welfare of dairy calves; 6.3 The welfare of beef cattle and sheep; 7 Animals for Food: Handling, Transport and Slaughter; 7.1 Stockmanship and the human-animal bond; 7.2 Humane handling; 7.3 Welfare in transport: what is wrong with going on a journey?. - 7.4 Welfare at the place of slaughter7.5 Religious slaughter; 8 Animals for Science and Biotechnology; 8.1 Experiments with animals: the moral debate; 8.2 Use of animals within the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act; 8.3 Assessing the cost of scientific procedures; 8.4 Assessing the welfare of laboratory animals; 8.5 Assessing the welfare of GM and mutant mice; 8.6 Impacts of science and biotechnology on the food animals; 8.7 Are animal scientists failing society?; 9 Animals for Sport; 9.1 Games people play with animals; 9.2 The Protection of Wild Animals Act; 9.3 Ethical principles. - 9.4 Fox hunting with hounds. - There has been a recent explosion of active concern in matters of animal welfare. The science behind animal welfare has progressed significantly, new codes of practice and legislation have come into to being, and innovative methods to assess welfare schemes for food production have emerged. Part of a major animal welfare series, Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden is John Webster's new and groundbreaking work on animal welfare. Building on his first book, the highly acclaimed Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden, it not only critically reviews areas of development, but looks to how
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| ISBN | 1405118776. - 9781405118774
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