Animal management and husbandry – Ethical approaches, with particular attention to veterinary deontology

In the course of history, different civilizations and cultures have had different codes of ethics for “animal professions”. To understand the current form and content of these codes of ethics, it is necessary to look back and analyse the opinions of different experts from ancient times to the present day. In the history of European civilization, the ethical/deontological views closest to those of modern husbandry and the veterinary profession can be found in Ancient Greece and Rome.