Overview
- Describes early animal health treaties and their influence on international trade standards
- Examines the impact of first veterinary conferences on global animal production
- Questions if the welfare paradigm provides sufficient ethical basis for animal production systems
Part of the book series: Animal Welfare (AWNS, volume 21)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sophie Riley is an associate professor in the faculty of law at the University of Technology Sydney. Her teaching and research interests focus on environmental law, animal law and environmental ethics. She is the lead editor of the Animal Law Case Book, written by UTS students of Animal Law and Policy, which is freely available in the public domain. Sophie also occupies a number of important positions in the animal law field including: as a member of GAL, the Global Animal Law expert group; a member of the grant award panel for Voiceless, the Animal Protection Institute; a member of the Animal Research Review Panel, a government body that oversees Animal Ethics Committees in New South Wales; and also as the Vice-President of AALTRA Inc. (The Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Commodification of Farm Animals
Authors: Sophie Riley
Series Title: Animal Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85870-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85869-8Published: 16 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85872-8Published: 17 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85870-4Published: 15 February 2022
Series ISSN: 1572-7408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 228
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Agriculture, International Economic Law, Trade Law