How should death be taken into account in welfare assessments?
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How should death be taken into account in welfare assessments? / Jensen, Karsten Klint.
Food futures: ethics, science and culture. ed. / I.Anna S. Olsson; Sofia M. Araújo; M. Fátima Vieira. Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2016. p. 47-51.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - How should death be taken into account in welfare assessments?
AU - Jensen, Karsten Klint
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - It appears to be a widespread view among animal welfare researchers that death is not a welfare issue. This paper demonstrates that this view is based on the mistaken assumption that welfare assessment is absolute, which moreover is coupled with the assumption that ‘welfare’ means ‘welfare at a time’. It also demonstrates that to exclude the welfare issues of being deprived of life from the ethical assessment of killing distorts the ethical considerations. In order to assess the welfare issues of death, it is necessary to structure welfare assessment as comparisons of possible whole lives of the animals.
AB - It appears to be a widespread view among animal welfare researchers that death is not a welfare issue. This paper demonstrates that this view is based on the mistaken assumption that welfare assessment is absolute, which moreover is coupled with the assumption that ‘welfare’ means ‘welfare at a time’. It also demonstrates that to exclude the welfare issues of being deprived of life from the ethical assessment of killing distorts the ethical considerations. In order to assess the welfare issues of death, it is necessary to structure welfare assessment as comparisons of possible whole lives of the animals.
UR - http://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/abs/10.3920/978-90-8686-834-6_5
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-90-8686-288-7
SP - 47
EP - 51
BT - Food futures
A2 - Olsson, I.Anna S.
A2 - Araújo, Sofia M.
A2 - Vieira, M. Fátima
PB - Wageningen Academic Publishers
Y2 - 28 September 2016 through 8 October 2016
ER -
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