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Why Animals Matter - Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-Being (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,533
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Why Animals Matter - Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-Being (Hardcover)

Marian Stamp Dawkins

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Renowned authority Marian Stamp Dawkins' new work presents an illuminating and urgent argument for the need to rethink animal welfare. In the vein of Temple Grandin's work, Dawkins explains that this welfare must be made to work in practice to have any effect, and cannot be tinged by anthropomorphism and claims of animal consciousness, which lack firm empirical evidence and are often freighted with controversy and high emotions. Instead, animal-welfare efforts must focus on science and on fully appreciating the critical role animals play in human welfare. With growing concern over such issues as climate change and food shortages, how we treat those animals on which we depend for survival needs to be put squarely on the public agenda. Dawkins seeks to do this by offering a more complete understanding of how animals help us. In the end, it is human self-interest that will drive changes in our treatment of animals. Taking positions that might surprise and will certainly challenge animal lovers, Dawkins presents a persuasive argument for why animals truly matter.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2012
First published: June 2012
Authors: Marian Stamp Dawkins
Dimensions: 222 x 146 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound / Paper over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-974751-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General
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LSN: 0-19-974751-2
Barcode: 9780199747511

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