Regulating Animal Use

McMullen, Steven

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-43474-6_7

Steven McMullen²

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Abstract

In the face of significant routine harm to animals in the economy, it is common for advocates to call for stricter government regulation of animal industries. Many activists and scholars have asked for stricter standards for using animals in experiments, if not complete abolition. Others have called for stricter enforcement of animal cruelty laws, especially regarding pet breeding facilities. Most notably, perhaps, there has been a sustained movement calling for changes to industrial animal agriculture, either by expanding the living space that animals are given, limiting the use of antibiotics, eliminating practices such as de-beaking and forced molting, or making animals’ living conditions more similar to a natural habitat. In many of these cases, people have sought to use the power of the state to place limits on human use of animals. In some cases activists have sought to eliminate the most harmful practices.

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1.
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2.
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4.
Ibid.
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6.
Siobhan O’Sullivan, Animals, Equality and Democracy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Chap. 2.
7.
Ibid., 33.
8.
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9.
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11.
Tom Regan, Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
12.
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13.
F. Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk, Compassion, by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 315.
14.
Norwood and Lusk, Compassion, by the Pound.
15.
Ibid., 284.
16.
Ibid., 298.
17.
Ibid., 323.
18.
Ibid., 325.
19.
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20.
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 3rd ed. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
21.
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22.
F. Bailey Norwood and Jayson L. Lusk, Compassion, by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 324.
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23.
Francione and Garner, The Animal Rights Debate.
24.
Ibid., 26.
25.
Norwood and Lusk, Compassion, by the Pound.
26.
Ibid., Chap. 5.
27.
Ibid., Chap. 10.
28.
Ibid., 56; Francione and Garner, The Animal Rights Debate, 47–48.
29.
John B. Cobb, “Ethics, Economics, and Free Trade,” Perspectives 6, no. 2 (1991): 12–15.
30.
Francione, “Animals as Property.”
31.
Ibid.
32.
Mary Hirschfeld, “How a Thomistic Moral Framework Can Take Social Causality Seriously,” in Distant Markets, Distant Harms: Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics, ed. Daniel Finn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 146–72.

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McMullen, S. (2016). Regulating Animal Use. In: Animals and the Economy. The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43474-6_7

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