Beyond Animal Welfare is a personal account of the wellness construct and its utility as an animal welfare enhancement. Professor Terry L. Maple discovered wellness as he sought to optimize animal welfare standards and practices in his duel career as an animal welfare scientist and a CEO for two zoos in Atlanta and West Palm Beach, Florida. The book examines the merger of human-centered wellness principles and the advancing quality of life offered to wildlife in human care. Professor Maple reveals that wellness applies to both human beings and animals, communities, and ecosystems. The key to long-term improvements in living standards is wellness-inspired design, a process whereby the animal is encouraged to thrive by creative enhancements to its physical and social environment. The art and science of wellness is identified as the new frontier of animal welfare reform.
Carol J. Adams, Deane Curtin, Josephine Donovan, Marti Kheel, Brian Luke, Rita C. Manning, and Kenneth Shapiro explore the way ethic-of-care feminism can be applied to hunting, vivisection, and even the activists themselves. This volume creates a new definition of animal advocacy and will interest animal-rights activists-the majority of whom are women-and helps to explain their concern by providing a new theoretical basis for it, based on the insights of Carol Gilligan.
What can we do TODAY to improve the well being of animals? People are passionate about animals, and this is reflected in the diverse opinions surrounding animal issues. Underlying all the spirited discussions is a common desire to make a positive difference in the lives of animals. EXCELLENCE BEYOND COMPLIANCE: Enhancing Animal Welfare Through the Constructive Use of the Animal Welfare Act helps zoological professionals and organizations make such a difference, and in doing so reframes the conversation about animal welfare. Excellence Beyond Compliance presents a voluntary, non-regulatory plan for attaining compliance with the federal Animal Welfare Act-and moving beyond it to embrace excellence in animal welfare. Zoological professionals and organizations engage daily with countless challenges and opportunities. Excellence Beyond Compliance empowers them to channel their passion and dedication into concrete actions to better serve the animals in their care. It is an essential guidebook that will improve-and even transform-those who put its principles into practice. Some of the key items addressed for zoological organizations include: - Creating an outstanding leadership team, including a dedicated Animal Welfare Officer - Preparing for inspections, with tips on creating inspection checklists, conducting entrance briefings and ensuring key staff availability during the inspection - Interacting with inspectors during and after inspections, including advice on how to respectfully address differences of opinion with an inspector - Utilizing self-certified compliance reporting to maintain compliance and document improvements between inspections and accreditation reviews - Designing Animal Welfare Enhancement Plans and Zoo, Aquarium and Park Improvement Plans - Addressing serious incidents and emergencies to ensure the safety of animals and people - Handling investigations, complaints, and other challenges in a manner that promotes exceptional animal welfare and organizational excellence - Developing an organizational culture where everyone shares responsibility for-and can make a difference in-the lives of animals. For twenty-five years, author and attorney James F. Gesualdi has dedicated himself to legal, regulatory and strategic engagement with animal welfare and wildlife conservation issues. Excellence Beyond Compliance distills the experience and wisdom he has gained along the way into an inspiring yet eminently practical guide to bring people together to enhance the lives and welfare of animals. Advance recognition for EXCELLENCE BEYOND COMPLIANCE: Enhancing Animal Welfare Through the Constructive Use of the Animal Welfare Act "Jim Gesualdi is a knowledgeable, tireless, and enthusiastic advocate for improving the welfare of animals in human care. His Excellence Beyond Compliance program is a unique resource, full of advice and useful tools gleaned from decades of experience, to help those of us dedicated to caring for animals do our very best each day. As he frequently says: 'It's all about the animals.' " Wendy Bulger, Esq. General Counsel San Diego Zoo Global "Gesualdi's primer is a 'must have' for anyone or any facility attempting to navigate the Animal Welfare Act. His team approach to welfare challenges every staff member to recognize that their performance, no matter what the task, should translate to improving the welfare of the animals in their care. My favorite quote: 'EXCELLENCE BEYOND COMPLIANCE is an ongoing process rather than a destination.' His challenge of continuous improvement takes us from just meeting requirements to developing a culture dedicated to welfare, health and safety for animals and their caregivers." Yvonne Nadler, DVM, MPH Consultant to the Zoological community on all hazards contingency planning
From vegetarianism to scientific experimentation, this book is an ethical exploration of our responsibilities To The animals with whom we share the planet.
“Peter J. Li’s pathbreaking new book, Animal Welfare in China, is timely and valuable.” ANTHROZOÖS The plight of animals in China has attracted intense interest in recent times. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, speculation about the origins of the virus have sparked global curiosity Speculation about the origins of COVID-19 has sparked curiosity about how animals are treated, traded and consumed in China today. In Animal Welfare in China, Peter Li explores the key animal welfare challenges facing China now, including animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products. He considers how Chinese policymakers have approached these issues and speaks with activists from China’s growing animal rights movement. Li also offers an overview of the history of animal welfare in China, from ancient times through the enormous changes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Some practices that are today described as “traditional,” he argues, are in fact quite recent developments, reflecting the contemporary pursuit of economic growth rather than long-standing cultural traditions. Based on years of fieldwork and analysis, Animal Welfare in China makes a compelling case for a more nuanced and evidence-based approach to these complex issues.
Animal ethics also stands to gain from an inquiry into the political status of animals. Animal ethics has gone through two periods of development and now stands on the cusp of a third. First generation thinkers identified the original issues and second generation writers refined this work, all within the context of ethical theory. However, though the political dimension of these issues often surfaces, rarely is it addressed in a systematic or sustained way. By not providing a careful political analysis of our obligations to animals, animal ethicists fail to engage in the difficult work of weighing the very important goal of protecting animals' interests against other important social values, some of which appear to be in tension with a universal animal ethic. Without attending to these sorts of political questions, animal advocates will be unable to fulfill the goals of their own movement. In the last decade, legal and political reforms have migrated to the centre of the animal protection agenda as a growing number of scholars and activists work, not just to strengthen animal welfare policies, but to enfranchise animals themselves to liberal democratic communities. Mainstream political theory has remained insulated from these developments. To date, political theorists have confined themselves almost entirely to questions of interhuman social organization, having little to say about our relationship to the natural world and its non-human inhabitants. The purpose of this thesis is to address this lacuna in political theory. I explore two questions: (1) should animals have standing in our political communities, as political subjects in their own right? and (2) if so, how are their political entitlements to be specified and institutionalized?In the first half of my thesis, I examine the underlying causes of the neglect of The Animal Question in political theory and consider two generations of arguments which exclude animals from the polis. First generation arguments take the idea of including animals as members of the political community seriously, but conclude that such membership is not possible because animals lack the capacities necessary for political agency. Second generation arguments sidestep the question of the political status of animals from the outset, aligning the matter with religion and leaving the issue up to the discretion of individuals. In the second part of my thesis, I develop an account of political entitlements for animals and propose institutionalizing these entitlements by assigning animals a set of carefully guarded basic rights, setting a place for them at the legislative table and giving them access to the courts through human representatives. Important in its own right, The Animal Question is also a useful test case for liberal theory. Careful consideration of the issue points to the need for a theory of political membership which disaggregates political agents from political subjects and gives each group its due; underscores the importance of embodiment, ecological dependency and animality generally, in thinking about justice; and introduces a requirement for a system of proxy political representation for any political theory which claims to be comprehensive.
Contains eight contributions which extend feminist ethic-of-care theory to the issue of animal well-being. As a group, the essays aim to suggest ways that theorists can move beyond the notion of animal rights to establish care as a basis for the ethical treatment of animals. Annotation c. by Book
