SUBJECT
Animal welfare
lecture
master
2
Semesters 1-4
Autumn/Spring semester
I. Are the animals able to suffer? - Pain sensation in animals - Consciousness and cognition
II. Problems with the "intelligent" species - The personality of the apes; ape rights? - Do the cetaceans have personalities?
III. Breeding of stock animals - Animals in our plates - does vegetartianism offer an alternative? - Wearing a fur coat - is it an ethical issue?
IV. Animals and religions - Species of despise, worship and sacrifice
V. Experimental animals - animal experiments (1) - How far can we go? The estimation of the usefulness of an experiment - International regulations
VI. Experimental animals - animal experiments (2) - Field experimenst - from the aspect of ethics and ecology - Animals in the education
VII. Biotechnology - Genetical engineering and animal welfare - Xenotransplantation, cloning
VIII. Protecting the wild (1) - Hunting - is it merely a sport, or rather a necessity?
IX. Protecting the wild (2) - Exotic animal trade
X. Environmental protection and the ethivs - Re-location to the wild – ethical and ethological issues
XI. Zoo and Aquarium - Do we still need them in the 21st century? - Environmental enrichment – Zoos as the last resort of the species
XII. Sporting animals or human cruelty? - Rodeo, horse and greyhound racing - Bullfight
XIII. The rights of the companion animals - The responsibility of the breedres - how far we can go in altering the look? - The working companion – blindguides, military and search and rescue dogs, therapy animals
XIV. Animal protectionists – where are the boundaries between a rightful act and destructiveness? - The big achievements of the animal welfare motion - "Radical acts" - extremities in animal right protection
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Armstrong and Botzler: Animal Ethics Reader (London, 2003)