caa a22 4500 46794282X CHVBK 20180406153018.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10806-005-4378-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10806-005-4378-9 Animal Agriculture: Symbiosis, Culture, or Ethical Conflict? [Elektronische Daten] [Vonne Lund, I. Olsson] Several writers on animal ethics defend the abolition of most or all animal agriculture, which they consider an unethical exploitation of sentient non-human animals. However, animal agriculture can also be seen as a co-evolution over thousands of years, that has affected biology and behavior on the one hand, and quality of life of humans and domestic animals on the other. Furthermore, animals are important in sustainable agriculture. They can increase efficiency by their ability to transform materials unsuitable for human consumption and by grazing areas that would be difficult to harvest otherwise. Grazing of natural pastures is essential for the pastoral landscape, an important habitat for wild flora and fauna and much valued by humans for its aesthetic value. Thus it seems that the environment gains substantially when animals are included in sustainable agricultural systems. But what about the animals themselves? Objections against animal agriculture often refer to the disrespect for animals' lives, integrity, and welfare in present intensive animal production systems. Of the three issues at stake, neither integrity nor animal welfare need in principle be violated in carefully designed animal husbandry systems. The main ethical conflict seems to lie in the killing of animals, which is inevitable if the system is to deliver animal products. In this paper, we present the benefits and costs to humans and animals of including animals in sustainable agriculture, and discuss how to address some of the ethical issues involved. Springer, 2006 animal welfare nationallicence ethics nationallicence killing nationallicence sustainability nationallicence vegetarianism nationallicence Lund Vonne National Veterinary Institute, PO Box 8156 Dep., N-0033, Oslo, Norway aut Olsson I. National Veterinary Institute, PO Box 8156 Dep., N-0033, Oslo, Norway aut Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 19/1(2006-02-01), 47-56 1187-7863 19:1<47 2006 19 10806 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-005-4378-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-005-4378-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lund Vonne National Veterinary Institute, PO Box 8156 Dep., N-0033, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Olsson I. National Veterinary Institute, PO Box 8156 Dep., N-0033, Oslo, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 19/1(2006-02-01), 47-56 1187-7863 19:1<47 2006 19 10806 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer