ANSC 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Veterinary Record, Office Of Public Sector Information, Genetic Linkage
14 Oct 2016
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The first few lectures have been on ethics, and particularly on the history of ethics as applied to animals. Before moving on to the science of animal welfare, i would like to mention aesthetics. Very often our first opinion of a topic is based on an aesthetic judgement. For example, when one first sees a person in extreme. Mohican style perhaps with multiple piercings and a safety pin through their cheek, there is a tendency to jump to conclusions about the person"s character. This is an aesthetic judgement; a person"s outwardly appearance gives little information about their character. In 1964, ruth harrison in the u. k. published a very influential book called animal machines in which she was very critical of intensive farming methods (harrison, 1964). She was a graduate in english and had little training in biology, but, nevertheless, was worried about the intensification of animal production in the post-war years.
