The Commodification of Farm Animals
The Commodification of Farm Animals
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.
<p>Introduction: For What Is the Animal But the Profits Thereof?
"Meating" the Demand: Markets and CommodificationThe Enlightenment Casts A Shadow: Anti-Cruelty in the Nineteenth Century
Animal Disease as a Trade Issue: Cattle Plagues and the Veterinary Profession
Internationalisation of Disease and the Trade in Animals
Whither Ethics?
A Sufficient Level of Repugnance
Conclusion: Decommodifying Farm Animals.</p><br><p></p>
Riley, Sophie
| ISBN | 978-3-030-85872-8 |
|---|---|
| Artikelnummer | 9783030858728 |
| Medientyp | Buch |
| Auflage | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Copyrightjahr | 2023 |
| Verlag | Springer, Berlin |
| Umfang | XXXI, 228 Seiten |
| Abbildungen | XXXI, 228 p. 2 illus. |
| Sprache | Englisch |
