This book engages with some of the most pressing ethical issues that arise from the use of animals in various business practices, providing interdisciplinary approaches to improving the nonhuman and human lives in animal-related industries. The chapters in this volume provide conceptual, theoretical and practical analyses of these issues that will shape the future direction of business ethics to more fully refl ect the impacts and implications of animal-based businesses on society, its members, and nature. The authors in this volume engage with topics including animal suffering and emotions, the commodifi cation of animals, vegetarian and vegan businesses and diets, technological innovations such as gene editing and lab-cultured meat, as well as captivity, corporate disclosure of animal welfare policies, and the possibility of humane jobs as well as the consideration of animals as stakeholders.

Natalie Thomas is an adjunct faculty member in the philosophy department at the University of Guelph, and a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is the author of Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

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Natalie Thomas is an adjunct faculty member in the philosophy department at the University of Guelph, and a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is the author of Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

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1 Animals and business ethics

Natalie Thomas

Part 1: Animals and business practices, work, labour and jobs

2 Are animals always commodified in the context of business?

Katy Fulfer and Patrick Clipsham

3 (Not) serving animals and aiming higher: cultivating ethical plant-based businesses and humane jobs

Kendra Coulter and Josh Milburn

4 Prospects for an animal-friendly business ethics

Brian Berkey

5 Working animals, ethics and critical theory

José-Carlos García-Rosell and Philip Hancock

Part 2: Animal welfare, animal agriculture and animals as food

6 Competition, regulation, and the race to the bottom in animal agriculture

Steven McMullen

7 Corporate disclosure initiative for animal welfare

Carrie Packwood Freeman and Eugenia P. Treadwell

8 McVeg*n: A critical analysis of vegetarianism, business ethics and animals as food

Kay Peggs

9 Animal suffering, environmental impact, and lab-cultured meat

Trevor Hedberg

10 Gene editing, animal disenhancement and ethical debates: A conundrum for business ethics?

Natalie Thomas and Adam Langridge

Part 3: Human and animal relationships in the context of businesses and industries

11 Moral feelings, compartmentalization and desensitization in the practice of animal experimentation

Rebekah Humphreys

12 Denied relationship: moral stress in the vocational killing of non-human animals

Tomaz GruSovnik and MaSa Blaznik

13 Dolphins, captivity and cruelty

Thomas I. White

14 Animals as stakeholders

J. A. Smart