Animal Welfare Science, Husbandry and Ethics: The Evolving Story of Our Relationship with Farm Anima

Animal Welfare has been a subject of intellectual and academic study for a long time. In the past philosophers, thought-leaders and scientists have contributed to the debate, and seismic changes such as the advent of post-war industrial farming have brought about changes in attitudes to the way animals are farmed. Animal welfare as a science and philosophy can be understood as a trajectory through history of our understanding of our relationship with animals, enhanced in recent years through studies into animal behaviour and cognition and societal changes in the way we view animals.Animal Welfare Science, Husbandry and Ethics charts the history of our understanding of farm animal welfare, throughout time- the human use of animals in different eras, and farming in different systems- seeing the emergence of intensification and science and technology. The book examines the human-non-human animal relationship with a philosophical approach, examining the connections and disconnections betwe