Are we pushing animals to their biological limits? [ welfare and ethical implications

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grandin, Temple (Editor), Whiting, Martin (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Oxfordshire, UK Boston, MA : CABI c2018
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Online Access:https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2018/20183246198.pdf

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505 1 |a 1. Introduction: use newgenetic technologies and animal breeding methods carefully to avoid problems -- 2. Domestication to dolly and beyond: a brief history of animal modification -- 3. Good for whom? differences between human and animal enhancement-- 4. Working equids: the welfare of those worked to their limit -- 5. Genetics and other technologies for increasing the productivity of cattle, sheep and pigs: welfare implications -- 6. Technologies for increasing the productivity of poultry: welfare implications -- 7. Selective breeding, cloning and gene editing of dogs and cats for appearance and performance traits -- 8. Methods to increase fish production: welfare and sustainability implications -- 9. Welfare concerns in genetically modified laboratory mice and rats -- 10. Cloning, editing and GMOs for animal enhancement -- 11. From bionic cat to superdog: ethical challenges of advanced prosthetic technology in veterinary medicine -- 12. Animal welfare and the brave new world of modifying animals -- 13. A duty to the enhanced, not a duty to enhance: welfare responsibilities associated with domestication -- 14. Pressing animals beyond their biological limits -- 15. Concluding: animals pushed to their limits 
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