A Proposal for a UK Ethics Council for Animal Policy: The Case for Putting Ethics Back into Policy Making
Substantial controversy is a consistent feature of UK animal health and welfare policy. BSE,~foot and mouth disease, bovine TB and badger culling, large indoor dairies, and wild animals in circuses are examples. Such policy issues are inherently normative; they include a substantial moral dimension. This paper reviews UK animal welfare advisory bodies such as the Animal Health and Welfare Board of England, the Farm Animal Welfare Committee and the Animals in Science Committee. These bodies play a key advisory role, but do not have adequate expertise in ethics to inform the moral dimension of p... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Animals, Vol 8, Iss 6, p 88 (2018) |
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MDPI AG
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Schlagwörter: | Animals in Science Committee / animal rights / animal welfare ethic / Department for Environment / Food and Rural Affairs / Dutch Council on Animal Affairs / Ethics Council for Animal Policy / Farm Animal Welfare Committee / Nuffield Council on Bioethics / utilitarianism / virtue theory / Veterinary medicine / SF600-1100 / Zoology / QL1-991 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27404305 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/ani8060088 |