Compassion, by the Pound

Download or read book Compassion, by the Pound written by F. Bailey Norwood and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.