Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.4324/9781315105840-16
Jonathan Anomaly
This chapter provides an overview of some ethical issues that arise when people use intensive agricultural techniques—often called “factory farming” 1 —to raise livestock for food. I will ignore important issues such as animal suffering and environmental concerns that other authors in this book discuss. Instead, I focus on problems factory farming raises for human health, with special emphasis on antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can arise in animals and infect people. I conclude that there are legitimate disagreements about what we should do about factory farming, but I argue that everyone should agree on two things: fi rst, we should defer to the best available science rather than viewing these issues through the prism of political ideology; second, we should think carefully about the moral trade-offs of different policy proposals rather than pontifi cating from an armchair.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.4324/9781315105840-48
Jeff Sebo
Effective animal advocates attempt to use evidence and reason to do the most good possible in animal advocacy. In this course we examine this approach to animal advocacy from theoretical as well as practical perspectives. First, what does it mean to do the most good possible, and how do effective animal advocates attempt to pursue this aim? Second, what are the main theoretical objections to effective animal advocacy? For example, does it involve too much cluelessness, demandingness, or implausibility? Third, what are the main practical objections to effective animal advocacy? For example, does it focus too much on direct, short-term, individual change and not enough on indirect, long-term, structural change? Along the way we will consider broader moral and political questions related to effective animal advocacy.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-06DOI: 10.4324/9781315105840-22
P. Pound
International, multi-disciplinary clinical and basic science investigators convened to discuss and identify changes needed to increase the predictive power of various models for drug efficacy and toxicity in humans, and ways in which to further refine, reduce, and replace animal models in biomedical research in areas such as metabolic and cardiovascular disease, inflammation, pain. Other topics discussed included new technologies in bioimaging, biosimulation, bioinformatics, the generation of genetically modified animals, phenotype screening, alternatives to rodent models, the use of embryonic stem cells, patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells, and humanized animal models. This volume presents a collection of short papers on some of the topics discussed at this important conference.
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