Are we pushing animals to their biological limits? [online] : Welfare and ethical implications / editors Temple Grandin, Martin Whiting

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Wallingford : CABI, 2018Description: 1 resursă online (vii, 213)ISBN:

9781786390547 (print)

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Introduction: use new genetic technologies and animal breeding methods carefully to avoid problems Domestication to dolly and beyond: a brief history of animal modification Good for whom? Differences between human and animal enhancement Working equids: the welfare of those worked to their limit Genetics and other technologies for increasing the productivity of cattle, sheep and pigs: welfare implications Technologies for increasing the productivity of poultry: welfare implications Selective breeding, cloning and gene editing of dogs and cats for appearance and performance traits Methods to increase fish production: welfare and sustainability implications Welfare concerns in genetically modified laboratory mice and rats Cloning, editing and GMOs for animal enhancement From bionic cat to superdog: ethical challenges of advanced prosthetic technology in veterinary medicine Animal welfare and the brave new world of modifying animals A duty to the enhanced, not a duty to enhance: welfare responsibilities associated with domestication Pressing animals beyond their biological limits Concluding: pushing animals to their limits

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Introduction: use new genetic technologies and animal breeding methods carefully to avoid problems Domestication to dolly and beyond: a brief history of animal modification Good for whom? Differences between human and animal enhancement Working equids: the welfare of those worked to their limit Genetics and other technologies for increasing the productivity of cattle, sheep and pigs: welfare implications Technologies for increasing the productivity of poultry: welfare implications Selective breeding, cloning and gene editing of dogs and cats for appearance and performance traits Methods to increase fish production: welfare and sustainability implications Welfare concerns in genetically modified laboratory mice and rats Cloning, editing and GMOs for animal enhancement From bionic cat to superdog: ethical challenges of advanced prosthetic technology in veterinary medicine Animal welfare and the brave new world of modifying animals
A duty to the enhanced, not a duty to enhance: welfare responsibilities associated with domestication Pressing animals beyond their biological limits Concluding: pushing animals to their limits

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