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    Animal welfare has been a subject of intellectual and academic study for a long time. In the past philosophers, thought-leaders and scientists have contributed to the debate, and seismic changes such as the advent of post-war industrial farming have brought about changes in attitudes to the way animals are farmed. Animal welfare as a science and philosophy can be understood as a trajectory through history of our understanding of our relationship with animals, enhanced in recent years through stu…Read more
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    Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece By Victor Davis Hanson (review)
    Agriculture and Human Values 18 (3): 339-340. 2001.
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    Easy-care or natural lambing pertainsto those sheep able to successfully lamb andrear at least one lamb without human assistancein a difficult environment. Such sheep may havea higher survival rate, lower lamb mortality,and require less shepherding at lambing thanother sheep breeds or strains. The farmer orshepherd account of easy-care lambing revealsseveral themes. Firstly, stock were bred tosurvive or suit local environments orconditions, particularly steep hill country inNew Zealand. This inv…Read more
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    Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece By Victor Davis Hanson
    Agriculture and Human Values 18 (3): 339-340. 2001.
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    Susanna Hornig Priest. A Grain of Truth. The Media, the Public, and Biotechnology
    Agriculture and Human Values 19 (4): 373-374. 2002.
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    Measuring biotechnology employees' ethical attitudes towards a controversial transgenic cattle project: The ethical Valence matrix (review)
    with Bruce H. Small
    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 18 (5): 495-508. 2005.
    What is the relationship between biotechnology employees’ beliefs about the moral outcomes of a controversial transgenic research project and their attitudes of acceptance towards the project? To answer this question, employees (n=466) of a New Zealand company, AgResearch Ltd., were surveyed regarding a project to create transgenic cattle containing a synthetic copy of the human myelin basic protein gene (hMBP). Although diversity existed amongst employees’ attitudes of acceptance, they were gen…Read more