The Welfare of Animals: The Silent Majority

The Welfare of Animals is an exciting book that will stimulate and provoke its readers. It describes many problems faced by animals – those we use for food, for pleasure or in research, and those simply but harshly affected by shrinking habitats in the face of the ever—growing human population. And yet it is not a depressing read. It focuses not only on the difficulties that animals face, but on their capacity for free—choice, for joy and excitement, and on the possible ways in which the pl...