How should death be taken into account in welfare assessments?
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How should death be taken into account in welfare assessments? / Jensen, Karsten Klint.
I: Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Bind 30, Nr. 5, 2017, s. 615-623.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - How should death be taken into account in welfare assessments?
AU - Jensen, Karsten Klint
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - That death is not a welfare issue appears to be a widespread view among animal welfare researchers. This paper demonstrates that this view is based on a mistaken assumption about harm, which is coupled to ‘welfare’ being conceived as ‘welfare at a time’. Assessments of welfare at a time ignore issues of longevity. In order to assess the welfare issue of death, it is necessary to structure welfare assessment as comparisons of possible lives of the animals. The paper also demonstrates that excluding the welfare issues of being deprived of life from the ethical assessment of killing distorts the ethical considerations.
AB - That death is not a welfare issue appears to be a widespread view among animal welfare researchers. This paper demonstrates that this view is based on a mistaken assumption about harm, which is coupled to ‘welfare’ being conceived as ‘welfare at a time’. Assessments of welfare at a time ignore issues of longevity. In order to assess the welfare issue of death, it is necessary to structure welfare assessment as comparisons of possible lives of the animals. The paper also demonstrates that excluding the welfare issues of being deprived of life from the ethical assessment of killing distorts the ethical considerations.
KW - Aggregation across times
KW - Life-time welfare
KW - Welfare at a time
U2 - 10.1007/s10806-017-9688-1
DO - 10.1007/s10806-017-9688-1
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85029182607
VL - 30
SP - 615
EP - 623
JO - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
JF - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
SN - 1187-7863
IS - 5
ER -
ID: 193583484