The Future of Animal Farming | 
| Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins, Roland Bonney
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 1405177829
Dewey Decimal Number: 179.3
EAN: 9781405177825
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Publication Date: May 16, 2008
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Does animal welfare have a place in sustainable farming, or do the demands of a rising human population and the threat of climate change mean that the interests of animals must be put aside? Can we improve the way we keep animals and still feed the world – or is it a choice between ethics and economics?
The aim of this book is to challenge the “them-and-us” thinking that sets the interests of humans and farm animals against each other and to show that to be really “sustainable,” farming needs to include, not ignore, animal welfare. The authors of this remarkable book come from a diversity of backgrounds: industry, animal welfare organizations, academic institutions, and practical farming. They are united in arguing that farm animals matter and that sustainable farming must have animal welfare at its ethical core, along with the production of healthy, affordable food and care for the environment.
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The beginning of the end of agricultural abuses June 24, 2008
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It seems like at least once a month we read of a huge beef recall due to E. coli 0157, lettuce or tomato recalls due to Salmonella or other problems with our food supply. Initiatives to prohibit the use of gestation crates are raising the consciousness of the unknowing public to issues of animal welfare. Less often, but still way too common, we read of gross abuses of animals in the care of processing plants by ignorant employees and farming procedures that are, by most standards, cruel to animals.
This book is the beginning of the end of such totally unnecessary and appalling activities which are examples of the modern abrogation of the Ancient Contract captioned in the title.
Dawkins and Bonney have gathered together a most impressive list of experts in their fields relating to the issues of animal welfare in today's agriculture. Most are from the UK where the best work is being done currently to renew the Ancient Contract. A notable exception however is Temple Grandin, truly an American treasure, whose outstanding work with farm animals has set new and better standards for the world.
This team elaborates on the issues of the Ancient Contract and provides practical and economical solutions to the problems created by the "bean counters" that are destroying agriculture by ignoring the Ancient Contract.
In recent years we have been deluged with books by "animal rights" supporters who only write about the mistreatment of animals and who ignore the realities of the human animal and the non-human animal equation. The Future of Animal Farming; Renewing the Ancient Contract deals with those realities and offers much hope for the future. Hopefully, this is the first of many to come that will begin to bring rationality and compassion to these important issues of morality, public health and agricultural economics.
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