Welfare biology
Since then, its establishment has been advocated for by a number of writers, including philosophers, who have argued for the importance of creating the research field, particularly in relation to wild animal suffering.[4] Todd K. Shackelford and Sayma H. Chowdhury, in response to Ng, argued that rather than focusing on improving the welfare of captive animals, that it would be better to not breed them in the first place, as this would "eliminate their suffering altogether".[11] In the 2019 book, The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, moral philosophers Catia Faria and Oscar Horta contribute a chapter on welfare biology.They express concern over what they perceive as the minimization of animal well-being, attributed to prevalent speciesist and environmentalist beliefs among life scientists and the general public.Faria and Horta conclude that the potential benefits of developing welfare biology are significant, given the widespread suffering of animals in the wild, challenging the idealized views of nature.
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