Animals and Business Ethics

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.

Draws together two fields of applied ethics: Animal Ethics and Business Ethics. Includes chapters written by prominent academics in the fields of philosophy, sociology, and business. Offers inspiration and motivation to move the topic of animals used in industries into sharper ethical focus.

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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.- Part I: Animals and Business Practices, Work, Labour and Jobs.- 2. Are Animals Always Commodified in the Context of Business?.- 3. (Not) Serving Animals and Aiming Higher: Cultivating Ethical and Sustainable Plant-Based Businesses and Humane Jobs.- 4. Prospects for an Animal-Friendly Business Ethics.- 5. Working Animals, Ethics and Critical Theory.- Part II: Animal Welfare, Animal Agriculture and Animals as Food.- 6. Competition, Regulation, and the Race to the Bottom in Animal Agriculture.- 7. Corporate Disclosure Initiative for Animal Welfare.- 8. McVeg*n: A Critical Analysis of Vegetarianism, Business Ethics and Animals as Food.- 9. Animal Suffering, Environmental Impact, and Lab-Cultured Meat.- 10. Gene Editing, Animal Disenhancement and Ethical Debates: A Conundrum for Business Ethics?.- Part III: Human and Animal Relationships in the Context of Businesses and Industries.- 11. Moral Feelings, Compartmentalization and Desensitization in the Practice of Animal Experimentation.- 12. Denied Relationship: Moral Stress in the Vocational Killing of Non-Human Animals.- 13. Dolphins, Captivity and Cruelty.- 14. Animals as Stakeholders.