Citation
Bruers, Stijn (2016) Animal suffering and human bias. Animal Sentience 7(9)
Commentary Type
Open Commentary
Thread
Yew-Kwang Ng, How welfare biology and commonsense may help to reduce animal suffering
Abstract
Ng proposes concrete ways to decrease animal suffering on the basis of commonsense economic logic and research in welfare biology. But to reduce animal suffering effectively in livestock farming, animal experimentation or the natural environment we have to become more aware of our pervasive and spontaneous but unreliable intuitive moral judgments. These can generate biases that prevent us from decreasing animal suffering effectively.
DOI
10.51291/2377-7478.1087
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