The Science of Animal Suffering

By Marian S. Dawkins. 2008

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Subfields: Genetics, Small Animals, Social Psychology

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Animal play and animal welfare (2011, background): “In this review, we side with the subjective experiences and health view (Dawkins 2008), that is we consider animal welfare to be improved when positive emotions and healthy biological functioning increase, or negative emotions, health problems and other biological malfunction decrease.”
Environmental challenge and animal agency. (2011, background): “sentient experiences) are at the core of animal welfare (Duncan, 1996), although more complex approaches that also include health (Dawkins, 2008), naturalness (Appleby, 1999; Fraser and Weary, 2005) and indeed the wholeness of the animal (Wemelsfelder, 2007; see also Section 3.”
Vocal Expression of Emotions in Mammals: Mechanisms of Production and Evidence (2012, background): “Today, public concern about animal welfare is strongly based on the attribution of mental states to animals, and welfare assessment is now commonly linked to both physical and mental health (Dawkins, 2008).”
Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats (2011, background): “Current attitudes suggest that modern assessments of animal welfare should be expanded to include measurements of subjective experience, and should focus on positive as well as negative affect (Desire et al. 2002; Boissy et al. 2007; Broom 2007; Dawkins 2008).”
Optical flow patterns in broiler chicken flocks as automated measures of behaviour and gait (2009, background): “But low levels of mortality and lack of external tell-tale signs of damage on dead birds do not adequately define what most people mean by ‘welfare’ (Dawkins, 2008), nor do they enable corrective measures to be taken during the life of a flock.”
The Use of Judgement Bias to Assess Welfare in Farm Livestock (2015, background): “The welfare of animals, including physical and mental well-being, is a major concern for society (Duncan 1996; Dawkins 2006, 2008; Wathes 2010).”
Animal welfare with and without consciousness (2017, background): “…these objections and at the same time to provide a clear definition of ‘welfare’ that did not include (but did not preclude) conscious experiences in animals, I proposed a twofold criterion for good welfare: whether the animal was healthy and whether the animal had what it wanted (Dawkins, 2008).”
Animal welfare and efficient farming: is conflict inevitable? (2017, background): “The ‘two question’ approach differs in that it makes fewer assumptions about what animals themselves actually want (Dawkins 2008) and has the further advantage that it can also provide guidelines for incorporating other criteria for welfare.”