Henry Buller, Emma Roe

Food and Animal Welfare (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing together the latest research and a range of case studies, Henry Buller and Emma Roe guide readers on a fascinating journey through animal welfare issues 'from farm to fork'. Animal welfare offers a vital lens through which to explore the economies, culture and politics of food. This is the first text to provide a much-needed overview of this strongly debated area of the food industry.

Buller and Roe explore how animal welfare is defined, advocated, assessed and implemented by farmers, veterinarians, distributors, and consumers. From the practicalities and limitations of establishing a basic standard of care for livestock, to the ethics of selling welfare as a product in the supermarket, this indispensable book offers empirical insights into a key aspect of the global food system: the lives, deaths, and consumption of animals which are at the core of the food chain. It is a must-read for students and scholars of animal welfare, agro-food studies and human-animal relations in disciplines such as geography, politics, anthropology, and sociology as well as animal behaviour, psychology and veterinary science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857856944
• Artikelnr.: 52952063

Autorenporträt

Henry Buller is Professor of (more than) Human Geography at the University of Exeter. He has written well over 100 books, articles and reports on social science approaches to animal welfare, animal geography, human-animal relations, rural development, food and environmental studies. He is currently undertaking research in the antimicrobial resistance and, in particular, diagnostic procedures in livestock farming systems with research projects in the UK, Tanzania and Thailand. He was a key member of the EU funded WelfareQuality® research project (2005-2010) and, more recently, the EU funded H2020 project 'Hennovation'. He was editor of the rural social science journal Sociologia Ruralis from 2002 to 2014 and has been an appointed member of the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council for a number of years and has chaired the DEFRA/FAWC 'Welfare at Killing Committee'.