Dilemmas in Animal Welfare

(BSc Zoology, PhD Animal Behaviour) is Chief Scientific Adviser with The World Society for the Protection of Animals, based in London, UK. At the Poultry Research Centre and the University of Edinburgh, UK, he carried out research for 20 years on behaviour and welfare of farm animals, before a period with The Humane Society of the United States in Washington, DC. His most recent book is Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals (co-editor, 2008). Dr Appleby is a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council (Farm Animal Welfare Committee from April 2011) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth and the Scottish Agricultural College. Anna Olsson (I. A. S. Olsson) is Researcher and Group Leader at i3S-Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto since 2004. She has a background in animal science and holds a PhD in ethology from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on behaviour and welfare of domestic (laboratory, farm and companion) animals and ethics of (animal) research and technology. She has established and coordinates training in laboratory animal science for researchers at i3S (FELASA accredited course). At the University of Porto, she has developed the ethics module for three PhD programs (PDN, GABBA, MCBiology) and is one of the founders of the interdisciplinary art-science module Biolaboratório. Anna Olsson chairs the institutional animal welfare and ethics review body since 2010. She is Trustee for Universities Federation of Animal Welfare / Humane Slaughter Association (since 2016) and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Swiss 3Rs Competence Centre (since 2018). She is Editorial board member for the journal Laboratory Animals (since 2004) and academic editor for PLOS ONE (since 2016). She is the co-editor of two textbooks Animal ethics in animal research (Cambridge University Press) and Animal Welfare (CABI International).

I: Preface 1: Introduction: values, dilemmas and solutions II: Dilemmas within animal welfare 2: Tales about tails: is the mutilation of animals justifiable in their best interests or ours? 3: Fat companions: understanding the welfare effects of obesity in cats and dogs 4: Welfare and quantity of life III: Animal welfare and social priorities 5: Improving farm animal welfare: is evolution or revolution needed in production systems? 6: Whom should we eat? Why veal can be better for welfare than chicken 7: Public health and animal welfare IV: Animal welfare and conservation 8: Balancing the need for conservation and the welfare of individual animals 9: Value conflicts in feral cat management: trap-neuter-return or trap-euthanize? V: Conceptual dilemmas 10: Alone or together: a risk assessment approach to group housing 11: What is suffering in animals?