The End of Animal Life: A Start for Ethical Debate PDF

The End of Animal Life: A Start for Ethical Debate PDF. The initiative for this book started as a result of a number of previous research projects funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on the ethics of killing animals, the ethics of the prevention and control of animal diseases, and the ethics of livestock farming.

The End of Animal Life: A Start for Ethical Debate PDF

Furthermore, the process of editing this book benefited from discussions with and support from colleagues at Wageningen University and Utrecht University. Most of all we would like to thank the authors for their valuable contributions, and Mike Jacobs at Wageningen Academic Publishers for all the effort that led to this publication.

Finally, we would like to mention one author who unfortunately could not witness the publication of his chapter: prof. Richard P. Haynes (1931-2014). Richard Haynes has been a leading scholar in the field of animal ethics and played an important role as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. We hope in memory of him that this volume will contribute to the ethical and public debate on the end of animal life decisions.

Killing animals is common practice, yet it is not normal. The end of animal life is related to many societal and ethical questions and concerns. Questions such as how long should we continue to treat an animal before killing it? But also the question whether it could be legitimate to kill individual animals for the welfare of the herd or future generations.

The ongoing public and academic discussions on these, and on other well-known questions like those related to the killing of animals for food or scientific purposes, show that there is no one standard evaluation of animal life. This book is an edited volume that enables the reader to get grip on that plurality of views with regard to animals. I helps to deal with the many questions related to the end of animal life.

The chapters show how the plurality of views on killing animals is related to moral presuppositions by providing a clear overview on the ethical views on end of life decisions. Furthermore, the book contains a number of applied studies of the ethical questions related to killing animals in various practices including wildlife management, fishing and fish farming, animal experimentation and livestock farming. These chapters can help veterinarians, scientists, policy makers and many other professionals working with animals to easily get a good overview of the issues at stake and contribute to responsible decisions with regard to the end of animal life.

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