Full Description
Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate and environmental change. The book explores the effects of fences on wild animals and human impacts on carrion animals; the impacts of tourism on animal welfare; philosophical questions about speciesism; and the quality and quantity of animal lives. The welfare impacts of human-animal interactions are explored, including human impacts on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, and companion and farm animals. Animal Welfare in a Changing World provides: Concise, opinion-based views on important issues in animal welfare by world experts and key opinion leaders. Pieces based on experience, which balance evidence-based approaches and the welfare impacts of direct engagement through training, campaigning and education. A wide-ranging collection of examples and descriptions of animal welfare topics which outline dilemmas in the real world, that are sometimes challenging, and not always comfortable reading. This is a 'must-read' book for animal and veterinary scientists, ethologists, policy and opinion leaders, NGOs, conservation biologists and anyone who feels passionately about the welfare of animals
Contents
1: Habitat Loss: Changing How Animals Think? 2: Whale Entanglement - a 21st-century Challenge in the Ocean 3: The Welfare Effects of PCBs in the Ocean 4: The Fence - the Welfare Implications of the Loss of the True Wild 5: Trophy Hunting and Animal Welfare 6: Carry on Carrion: the Fall of the Scavenger 7: Restoring What We Have Destroyed: Animal Welfare Aspects of Wildlife Conservation, Reintroduction and Rewilding Programmes 8: Intensification - the Pressures of Volume 9: Welfare Challenges: Feedlot Cattle 10: Public Opinion and the Retailer: Driving Forces in Animal Welfare? 11: Vertebrate/Invertebrate - When Do We Start Caring? 12: Animal Welfare at Slaughter - a Level Global Playing Field? 13: Precision Livestock Farming: the Future of Livestock Welfare Monitoring and Management? 14: The Paradoxical World of the Dog 15: Animal Experience of Domestication 16: Better to Have Lived and Lost - the Concept of a Life Worth Living 17: If Fishes Feel Pain, What Should We Do? 18: Anthropomorphism: Faulty Thinking or Useful Tool? 19: Speciesism 20: Longevity and Brevity - Is Death a Welfare Issue? 21: Promises and Challenges of Big Data Associated With Automated Dairy Cow Welfare Assessment 22: Animal Welfare: Information in a Changing World 23: Licensed to Harm 24: Animal Watching in Tourism 25: The Rise of the Inclusive Approach to Change in Animal Welfare 26: Animal Welfare Protection in the Face of Shrinking Public Resource
