Animal ethics and animal welfare science: bridging the two cultures

Animal Ethics and Animal Welfare Science: Bridging the Two Cultures

Since the 1970s, scientists studying animal welfare and philosophers writing about animal ethics have worked toward the common goal of understanding and articulating our proper relationship to animals of other species. However, the two groups approached this task using such different concepts, assumptions, and vocabulary that they functioned as two distinct ‘‘cultures’’ with little mutual under...

"Concepts in animal welfare": a syllabus in animal welfare science and ethics for veterinary schools.

Public attitudes toward animal welfare have improved with growing social affluence, and veterinarians are increasingly expected to be informed about animal welfare in a broader sense than health alone. However, animal welfare has not been a traditional component of the veterinary curriculum. To help address this lack, the World Society for the Protection of Animals(WSPA) and the University of B...

Science , ethics and public concern about animal welfare

Running Head: Ethics, Science, Animal Minds Title: Ethics and the Science of Animal Minds

Ethicists have commonly appealed to science to bolster their arguments for elevating the moral status of nonhuman animals. I describe a framework within which I take many ethicists to be making such appeals. I focus on an apparent gap in this framework between those properties of animals that are part of the scientific consensus, and those to which ethicists typically appeal in their arguments....

Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Welfare

Many researchers have studied the oxytetracycline (OTC) pharmacokinetic profile following oral administration in multiple aquatic animal species including shrimp[1-5], sea turtles[6], and fish[7-11], However, Rigos & Smith[12], described the void of data in the literature showing a clinical effect of OTC in fish that could be directly predicted, correlated, or assessed from OTC concentrations i...