Compassion, by the pound : the economics of farm animal welfare
Norwood, F. BaileyAuthor
Lusk, JaysonContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
This study journeys from the earliest days of animal domestication to modern industrial farms. Delving into questions of ethics and animal sentience, the book use data from ingenious consumers' experiments conducted with real food, real money, and real animals to compare the costs and benefits of improving animal care. It shows how the economic approach to animal welfare raises new questions and ethical conundrums, as well as providing unique and counter-intuitive results.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study journeys from the earliest days of animal domestication to modern industrial farms. Delving into questions of ethics and animal sentience, the book use data from ingenious consumers' experiments conducted with real food, real money, and real animals to compare the costs and benefits of improving animal care. It shows how the economic approach to animal welfare raises new questions and ethical conundrums, as well as providing unique and counter-intuitive results.
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Livestock systems
Animal welfare
Livestock
Animals, Domestic
Social Sciences
Morals
Social Control, Formal
Animal Population Groups
Psychology, Social
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Sociology
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Animals
Eukaryota
Psychiatry and Psychology
Organisms
Animal Welfare
Economics
Livestock
Ethics
Poultry
Social Welfare & Social Work
Social Sciences
Social Welfare & Social Work - General