Weighing animal welfare

• Titel: Weighing animal welfare
• Titelzusatz: comparing well-being across species
• Mitwirkende: Fischer, Bob [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Bob Fischer
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Illustrationen: illustrations.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Includes index. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 17, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-774579-3
• DOI: doi:10.1093/9780197745793.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Society
• Sach-SW: Ethics & moral philosophy
• K10plus-PPN: 1909913693
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Abstract

When, if ever, is it better to spend money to improve pig welfare over chicken welfare? Which species of fish is worse off in commercial aquaculture operations? When, if ever, would humans benefit less from a policy than animals stand to lose? The answers to these questions involve making interspecies welfare comparisons-assessments of how well or poorly the members of one species are faring compared to the members of another species. It's important to answer these questions, as governments, NGOs, and private actors regularly make decisions that assume particular views about them. This volume addresses this crucial gap in the literature: it proposes a methodology for making such comparisons, it puts that methodology into practice, and then reports some tentative, proof-of-concept results.

Abstract

"The purpose of this volume is to report the results of a collaborative, 20-month, interdisciplinary project on making tradeoffs across species. I'm the editor because I was the project lead. We aren't all joint authors because some people deserve credit for certain singular contributions. Still, the project was a joint enterprise with a specific, shared goal: to develop a way to make principled comparisons between courses of action that affect different kinds of animals. This book reflects our collective view about one way to achieve that goal. And it wouldn't exist without efforts that go well beyond the authorship details of particular chapters. So, all the contributors deserve more credit than the cover suggests"--