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    Preference and motivation research
    with Christine Nicol
    In Michael C. Appleby, Anna Olsson & Francisco Galindo (eds.), Animal welfare, Cabi. 2018.
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    Attitudes of Canadian Pig Producers Toward Animal Welfare
    with Jeffrey M. Spooner and Catherine A. Schuppli
    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 27 (4): 569-589. 2014.
    As part of a larger study eliciting Canadian producer and non-producer views about animal welfare, open-ended, semi-structured interviews were used to explore opinions about animal welfare of 20 Canadian pig producers, most of whom were involved in confinement-based systems. With the exception of the one organic producer, who emphasized the importance of a “natural” life, participants attached overriding importance to biological health and functioning. They saw their efforts as providing pigs wi…Read more
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    Animal Ethics and the Scientific Study of Animals
    with Rod Preece
    Essays in Philosophy 5 (2): 404-417. 2004.
    From ancient Greece to the present, philosophers have variously emphasized either the similarities or the differences between humans and nonhuman animals as a basis for ethical conclusions. Thus animal ethics has traditionally involved both factual claims, usually about animals’ mental states and capacities, and ethical claims about their moral standing. However, even in modern animal ethics the factual claims are often scientifically uninformed, involve broad generalizations about diverse taxon…Read more
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    A unique and thought-provoking exploration of the complex and often contradictory field of animal welfare science.
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    A “Practical” Ethic for Animals
    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 25 (5): 721-746. 2011.
    Abstract   Drawing on the features of “practical philosophy” described by Toulmin ( 1990 ), a “practical” ethic for animals would be rooted in knowledge of how people affect animals, and would provide guidance on the diverse ethical concerns that arise. Human activities affect animals in four broad ways: (1) keeping animals, for example, on farms and as companions, (2) causing intentional harm to animals, for example through slaughter and hunting, (3) causing direct but unintended harm to animal…Read more
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    Factors influencing the effectiveness of research ethics committees
    with C. A. Schuppli
    Journal of Medical Ethics 33 (5): 294-301. 2007.
    Research ethics committees—animal ethics committees for animal-based research and institutional research boards for human subjects—have a key role in research governance, but there has been little study of the factors influencing their effectiveness. The objectives of this study were to examine how the effectiveness of a research ethics committee is influenced by committee composition and dynamics, recruitment of members, workload, participation level and member turnover. As a model, 28 members …Read more