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ATTITUDES TO ANIMALS: VIEWS IN ANIMAL WELFARE AttitudestoAnimalsprovidesafoundationthatthereadercanusetomake ethical choices about animals. It will challenge readers to question their currentviews,attitudesandperspectivesonanimalsandthenatureofthe human–animalrelationship. Humanperspectivesonthehuman–animalrelationshipsreflectwhatwe have learned,togetherwith spokenand unspokenattitudesandassump- tions, from our families, society, media, education and employment. Thisthought-provokingbookwillaskwhatitistobehuman,whattobe animal,andwhatisthenatureofrelationshipbetweenthem.Theseques- tions are addressed through philosophical and ethical discussions, scien- tific evidence and dynamic theoretical approaches. Attitudes to Animals willalsoencourageustothinknotonlyofourrelationshipstonon-human animals, but also those with other, human, animals. . has taught psychology and psychobiology at CentreCollegeinDanville,Kentucky.Inadditiontoalong-terminterest inanimalwelfareissues,herresearchhasfocusedonspatialcognitionand foraging in non-human primates. She has worked with captive primate populationsin the United Kingdomand the United States,and has also conductedfieldresearchinPeru,CostaRicaandMadagascar.Currently, Francine Dolins is the Program Officer for Research in the Animal Research Issues Section of The Humans Society of the United States. For Christopher – for sharing his joy in all that is life ATTITUDES TO ANIMALS: VIEWS IN ANIMAL WELFARE Edited by FRANCINE L. DOLINS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521473422 © Cambridge University Press 1999 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in 1999 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Dolins, Francine L. (Francine Leigh), 1964– Attitudes to animals: views in animal welfare/Francine L. Dolins p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 47342 X. – ISBN 0 521 47906 1 (pbk.) 1. Animal welfare – moral and ethical aspects. 2. Human–animal relationships – moral and ethical aspects. I. Title HV4708.D63 1999 179´.3—dc21 97-32155 CIP ISBN-13 978-0-521-47342-2 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-47342-X hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-47906-6 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-47906-1 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2005 Contents List of contributors page vii Acknowledgements ix Part I Attitudes to animals 1 A look back in the mirror: perspectives on animals and ethics Francine L. Dolins 3 2 Me and my totem: cross-cultural attitudes towards animals Phyllis Passariello 12 3 Sheep in wolves’ clothing? Attitudes to animals among farmers and scientists James A. Serpell 26 Part II Animal awareness 4 The problem of animal subjectivity and its consequences for the scientific measurement of animal suffering Franc¸oise Wemelsfelder 37 5 Environmentalenrichment and impoverishment: neurophysiologicaleffects Susan D. Healy and Martin J. Tove´e 54 6 The behavioural requirements of farm animals for psychological well-being and survival Robert J. Young 77 7 Personality and the happiness of the chimpanzee James E. King 101 8 Primate cognition: evidence for the ethical treatment of primates Richard W. Byrne 114 Part III Animal welfare 9 Animal welfare: the concept of the issues Donald M. Broom 129 v vi Contents 10 New perspectiveson the design and management of captive animal environments David Shepherdson 143 11 Should we let them go? Mary Midgley 152 Part IV Research and education 12 Humane education: the role of animal-based learning Andrew J. Petto and Karla D. Russell 167 13 ‘Minding animals’: the role of animals in children’s mental development M. Patricia Hindley 186 14 Alternatives to using animals in education David Dewhurst 200 15 Animals in scientific education and a reverence for life Henk Verhoog 218 Part V Epilogue: the future of wild animals 16 Human sentiment and the future of wildlife David E. Cooper 231 17 In the absence of animals: power and impotence in our dealings with endangered animals Charles Bergman 244 Index 258 Contributors Charles Bergman DepartmentofEnglish,PacificLutheranUniversity,Tacoma,Washington, WA 98477, USA Donald M. Broom Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK Richard W. Byrne Scottish Primate Research Group, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JU, UK David E. Cooper Department of Philosophy, University of Durham, 50 Old Elvet Road, Durham DH1 3HN, UK David Dewhurst FacultyofHealthandEnvironment,LeedsMetropolitanUniversity,Calver- ley Street, Leeds LS1 3HE, UK Francine L. Dolins TheHumaneSocietyoftheUnitedStates,AnimalIssuesResearchSection, Animal Issues Research Section, 2100 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA Susan D. Healy DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofNewcastle-upon-Tyne,Newcastle- upon-TyneNE1 7RU UK M. Patricia Hindley SchoolofCommunication,SimonFraserUniversity,Burnaby,BritishCol- umbia, V5A 1S6, Canada vii viii Contributors Mary Midgley 1a Collingwood Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 2JP, UK James E. King DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofArizona,Tucson,AZ85721,USA Mary Midgley Phyllis Passariello AnthropologyProgram,CentreCollege,Danville,600WestWalnutStreet, Danville, KY 40422, USA Andrew J. Petto CenterforScienceEducation,POBox8880National,Madison,WI53708- 8880, USA Karla D. Russell RRI, Box 87, Intervale, NH 03845, USA James A. Serpell DepartmentofClinicalStudies,SchoolofVeterinaryMedicine,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA David Shepherdson Metro Washington Park Zoo, Portland, Oregon, OR 97221, USA Martin J. Tove´e DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofNewcastle-upon-Tyne,Newcastle- upon-TyneNE1 7RU, UK Henk Verhoog TheoreticalBiologyDivision,LeidenUniversity,Kaiserstraat63,2311GP Leiden PO Box 9516, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Franc¸oise Wemelsfelder GeneticsandBehavioural SciencesDepartment,Scottish AgriculturalCol- lege, Bush Estate, Penicuik EH26 0QE, UK Robert J. Young SchoolofAgricultureandHorticulture,DeMontfortUniversity,Caythorpe, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG32 3EP, UK Acknowledgements TherearemanypeoplebothprofessionallyandpersonallywhomIwould liketoacknowledgeandextendmydeepestthankstoinhelpingtomake this book possible. First, I would like to thank each of the contributors whogavetheirtimeandenergyinresearchingandwritingtheirchapters.I wouldliketothankoureditoratCambridgeUniversityPress,DrTracey Sanderson,whohasshownthegreatestcreativityandpatienceindealing witheveryaspectoftheproductionofthisbook.Iwouldliketoacknowl- edge the work of Ms Mary Sanders, who copy-edited this volume with greatdiligence.And,Iwouldespeciallyliketoacknowledgetheguidance and assistance that Dr Franc¸oise Wemelsfelderhas generously shown in creating this volume, through her insight, thoughts and wisdom about animalbehaviourandwelfare,andherfriendship.DrLizWilliamsonwas an inspiration that one could ‘act’ positively to create changes for the welfare of animals and humans alike; she inspires through example, as does Dr Hannah Buchanan-Smith. During the planning stages when this project was just an idea, Jean- Marie Stassin and his small coterie of creatures (Kilda, Samson, Nenni, Penther) living at Ash Cottage provided much support and encourage- ment,asdiddearfriendsandcolleagues–EmmaClery,SanjoyRoy,Anita Roy,JimGardnerandGavinBaxter,MarionSmith,SandraGibb,Mari- on Dow, Betty Bruce, Mamie Prentice, Rosie Wilson, Dario Floreano, LynnHanley,VickieGlidewell,PratapRughani,PaulGarber,JimKing andChristopherKlimowicz.IamalsodeeplygratefultoMerelynDolins and Eva Trupin, who have great faith in me. Philip Trupin will always remain as an inspiration, especially when it comes to thinking about animals. Finally,Iwouldliketoacknowledgemydeepestthankstotheanimals forwhomthis bookisreallywritten.Manyanimals,asindividuals,have ix x Acknowledgements touched my life: as a token of the trusting relationships that have been bestowed on me and the entrance into their ‘mysteries’ that I have been allowedto observe, I wantedthis book to exist.In my education,I have ‘used’ animals in studying them. This relationship has always left me uneasy:ananimalisnotabookofversetobeopenedandshutatwill.The animalexistsbeyondtheclassroomhours,laboratoryworkandresearch– itbehaves,lives,dies.Iwasandamdeterminedthatstudents’educationin futuretimeswillnotbefraughtwithsimilardecisionsbasedonsupposedly mutually exclusive alternatives of whether to pass a course or fail by aligningthemselveswithcertainbeliefsaboutanimalsandthemeaningof theirlives.Aneducationcanpromotebothethicalandscientificthinking simultaneously;theyaredefinitelynotmutuallyexclusiveconcepts.Thus, this book emerged to assist students with their own beliefs about how animalsshouldbetreatedineducation,inresearch,andinoursociety,and thisbookemergedtoassistthosewhoteachcoursesonethicsandanimal welfare. Those who love animals are students of animals’ nature, and I hopethatthisbookenlightensthoseoutsideofthestructurededucational establishments as well. We obtained joy in creating this book, but the ultimate joy will occur when we no longer have the need to write books such as these, when animalsasseparateentities,intheirseparateexistences,areacknowledged in their respectful place.
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