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Knocking out pain in livestock: can technology succeed where morality has stalled?

Abstract:: Though the vegetarian movement sparked by Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation has achieved some success, there is more animal suffering caused today due to factory farming than there was when the book was originally written. In this paper, I argue that there may be a technological solution to the problem of animal suffering in intensive factory farming operations. In particular, I suggest that recent research indicates that we may be very close to, if not al...
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Shriver, A. (2009). Knocking out pain in livestock: can technology succeed where morality has stalled? Neuroethics, 2(3), 115–124.

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Shriver, A. “Knocking out Pain in Livestock: Can Technology Succeed Where Morality Has Stalled?” Neuroethics, vol. 2, no. 3, Springer, 2009, pp. 115–24.

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Shriver, A. 2009. “Knocking out Pain in Livestock: Can Technology Succeed Where Morality Has Stalled?” Neuroethics 2 (3): 115–24.
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Publisher copy:: 10.1007/s12152-009-9048-6

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University of Oxford

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Publisher:: Springer
Journal:: Neuroethics More from this journal
Volume:: 2
Issue:: 3
Pages:: 115-124
Publication date:: 2009-08-21
Acceptance date:: 2009-08-07
DOI:: 10.1007/s12152-009-9048-6
EISSN:: 1874-5504
ISSN:: 1874-5490

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Keywords:: SBTMR

Pain

Bioethics

Nonhuman animals

Suffering

Animal neuroethics

Genetic engineering
Pubs id:: pubs:912146
UUID:: uuid:b25466f5-d790-4609-a252-1c934609d18c
Local pid:: pubs:912146
Source identifiers:: 912146
Deposit date:: 2018-09-06

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Copyright holder:: Springer
Copyright date:: 2009
Notes:: © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009

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