Are we pushing animals to their biological limits? [ welfare and ethical implications
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxfordshire, UK Boston, MA :
CABI
c2018
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| Online Access: | https://www.cabi.org/cabebooks/FullTextPDF/2018/20183246198.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- 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