How should death be taken into account in welfare assessments?
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It appears to be a widespread view among animal welfare researchers that death is not a welfare issue. This paper demonstrates that this view is based on the mistaken assumption that welfare assessment is absolute, which moreover is coupled with the assumption that ‘welfare’ means ‘welfare at a time’. It also demonstrates that to exclude the welfare issues of being deprived of life from the ethical assessment of killing distorts the ethical considerations. In order to assess the welfare issues of death, it is necessary to structure welfare assessment as comparisons of possible whole lives of the animals.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Food futures : ethics, science and culture |
Editors | I.Anna S. Olsson, Sofia M. Araújo, M. Fátima Vieira |
Number of pages | 5 |
Publisher | Wageningen Academic Publishers |
Publication date | 2016 |
Pages | 47-51 |
Chapter | 1.5 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-90-8686-288-7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-90-8686-834-6 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Event | EurSafe 2016: Food Futures: ethics, science and culture - University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Duration: 28 Sep 2016 → 8 Oct 2016 http://www.ibmc.up.pt/eursafe2016/ |
Conference
Conference | EurSafe 2016 |
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Location | University of Porto |
Land | Portugal |
By | Porto |
Periode | 28/09/2016 → 08/10/2016 |
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