Announcing the third title in a major new UFAW Animal Welfare Series
Animal Welfare Limping Towards Eden
John Webster
We would like to announce the publication of the third book in the UFAW/Blackwell Animal Welfare Series, Animal Welfare Limping Towards Eden by John Webster. The aim of this series, which is a collaboration between UFAW and the well-known publisher Blackwell Science Ltd of Oxford, is to provide an authoritative source of information on worldwide developments, current thinking and best practice in the field of animal welfare science and technology, in keeping with UFAW's tradition for intellectual rigour in the pursuit of advances in animal welfare. Already published in this series is Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals by Robert Young and Physiology and Behaviour of Animal Suffering by Neville Gregory. Anyone wishing to contribute to the series should contact James Kirkwood at UFAW.
Animal Welfare Limping Towards Eden
John Webster
There has been a recent explosion of active concern in matters of animal welfare. The science behind animal welfare has progressed significantly, new codes of practice and legislation have come into to being, and innovative methods to assess welfare schemes for food production have emerged.
Part of a major animal welfare series, Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden is John Webster's new and groundbreaking work on animal welfare. Building on his first book, the highly acclaimed Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden, it not only critically reviews areas of development, but looks to how animal welfare can be improved in the future.
Special consideration is given to:
- Defining animal welfare ('fit and happy') and establishing a systematic approach for its evaluation (the 'five freedoms');
- Providing a sound ethical framework that affords proper respect to animals within the broader context of our duties as citizens to the welfare of society;
- Developing comprehensive, robust protocols for assessing animal welfare and the provisions that constitute good husbandry;
- Introducing an education policy that will increase human awareness of animal welfare problems and promote action to reduce suffering.
About the Author
John Webster is Emeritus Professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Bristol. Author of the widely acclaimed Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden, he is the founding father of the Bristol Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science group that has gathered evidence and pioneered the arguments necessary to achieve improved welfare standards for veal calves, broiler chickens, laying hens and dairy cows.
296 pages, paperback. ISBN 9781405118774. Published February 2005.
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