Animals, Ethics and Trade THE CHALLENGE OF ANIMAL SENTIENCE

Order the book online now with 10 % discount!>>> • The use of animals for meat, for hide, for their labour and in laboratories has been justified with the assumption that unlike humans, animals aren't fully sentient beings. • This book challenges that assumption with groundbreaking new research that brings into question everything we've ever thought about the ways animals experience the world. • Over twenty contributions from internationally-renowned experts on animal behaviour and agriculture include big names such as Jane Goodall, Tim Lang and Vandana Shiva. The complexities of animal behaviour revealed in the last few decades are astonishing, but what are the implications? In this book, internationally respected contributors are brought together for the first time to debate and attempt to answer these questions. The first sections discuss scientific and ethical perspectives on the consciousness, emotions and mental abilities of animals. Later sections address how human activities such as science, law, farming, food production, trade, development and education respect or ignore animals ’ sentience and welfare, and review the options for changes in our policies, our practices and our thinking. AUTHOR INFORMATION Jacky Turner is a freelance researcher and writer working on animal welfare. Joyce D’Silva is th