Treated Like Animals - Alick Simmons

Treated Like Animals

Improving the Lives of the Creatures We Own, Eat and Use

(Autor)

Audio/Hörbuch
272 Seiten
2023
Pelagic Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78427-420-7 (ISBN)
27,70 inkl. MwSt
Society’s arbitrary and inconsistent grouping of animals according to their ‘use’ means that we tolerate institutionalised inhumane exploitation for some while striving to protect others. The author advocates an approach to animal exploitation based on science and a universal ethics.
You don’t have to be an animal rights activist to take an interest in how we treat other creatures. All of us, with few exceptions, use animals in some way: for food, research, recreation and companionship. In Britain we eat around a billion chickens every year, while 60% of all mammals on Earth, by biomass, are now livestock. In 2020, approximately 2.88 million scientific procedures involving living animals were carried out in Great Britain.



Because all this happens in our name, as consumers and citizens we have a duty to understand, to care and to exert some influence over how animals are used. But because such use is ingrained in our daily lives and largely happens behind closed doors, we are barely aware of it. The animals deserve better. Understanding the inconsistencies in our attitudes, in the law and in what is deemed acceptable practice is an important first step.



This timely and incisive book makes compelling reading for anyone who has an interest in animals, whether wild or domestic, free-living or captive, people intrigued about how their food is produced, and those keen to make informed and intelligent decisions.

Alick Simmons is a veterinarian and a naturalist. After a 35-year public service career controlling epidemic diseases of livestock, culminating in eight years as the UK’s Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, in 2015 he began conservation volunteering. As well as practical tasks such as surveying waders and catching baby cranes, he advises a number of conservation organisations on animal welfare and ethics. He is chair of the Zoological Society of London’s Ethics Committee for Animal Research and sits as an independent member of ethics committees for both the RSPB and the National Trust. He is former chair of the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare and the Humane Slaughter Association.

Preface

1 The Exploitation of Animals

2 Why Aren’t All Animals Treated the Same Way?

3 The Welfare of Farmed Animals: an Overview

4 Grazing Animals: the Best, and Some of the Worst

5 Pigs, Poultry and the Rest

6 Snares, Guns and Poison: the ‘Management’ of Wildlife

7 Conservation: Exploitation with Clear Limits?

8 Recreation, Sport and a Little Food

9 Pets: Exploitation Begins at Home

10 Animals Used in Research

11 A Personal Ethical Framework

12 Making Sense of It All

Notes

Glossary and Abbreviations

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Exeter
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10 1-78427-420-8 / 1784274208
ISBN-13 978-1-78427-420-7 / 9781784274207
Zustand Neuware
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