• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Compassion, by the pound : the economics of farm animal welfare
  • Contributor: Norwood, F. Bailey [Author]; Lusk, Jayson L. [Author]
  • imprint: Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, 2011
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  • Extent: XIV, 409 S.; graph. Darst
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199551163.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780199551163; 0199551162
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  • Keywords: Nutztierhaltung > Massentierhaltung > Tiergesundheit > Ethik
  • Reproductino series: Oxford scholarship online. Economics and Finance
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
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  • Description: This study journeys from the earliest days of animal domestication to modern industrial farms. Delving into questions of ethics and animal sentience, the book use data from ingenious consumers' experiments conducted with real food, real money, and real animals to compare the costs and benefits of improving animal care. It shows how the economic approach to animal welfare raises new questions and ethical conundrums, as well as providing unique and counter-intuitive results.