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The commodification of farm animals / Sophie Riley.

9783030858704 (electronic bk.)
3030858707 (electronic bk.)
9783030858698
3030858693

Cham : Springer, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-030-85870-4 doi

SF84.3 .R55 2022

636

This book examines how the developments in veterinary science, philosophy, economics and law converged during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to entrench farm animals along a commodification pathway. It covers two neglected areas of study; the importance of international veterinary conferences to domestic regimes and the influence of early global treaties that dealt with animal health on domestic quarantine measures. The author concludes by arguing that society needs to reconsider its understanding and the place of the welfare paradigm in animal production systems. As it presently stands, this paradigm can be used to justify almost any self-serving reason to abrogate ethical principles. The topic of this book will appeal to a wide readership; not only scholars, students and educators but also people involved in animal production, interested parties and experts in the animal welfare and animal rights sector, as well as policy-makers and regulators, who will find this work informative and thought-provoking.

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Animal welfare (Springer) ; v. 21.

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