Assessment of farm animals and intersubjectivity

F. Karlsson

Assessment of farm animals and intersubjectivity

In: Global food security: ethical and legal challenges

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F. Karlsson

F. Karlsson Uppsala University, Department of Theology, Box 511, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden; fredrik.karlsson@teol.uu.se

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Pages:: 348–353

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867103_056

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The purpose of this paper is to outline an approach, called the textual approach, to theoretically confirm the intersubjectivity of assessments of animal welfare. The field of medical hermeneutics is used as a source for inspiration of how to correlate results of disparate empirical methods in order to better understand the health status of another being. The textual approach suggests that farm animals should be assessed as physiological objects as well as experiencing subjects. Stress-measurements add information about the animal as an object, while the adjective-based method adds information about the animal as a subject. The textual approach also implies, morally, that the assessed animal should be treated as an intrinsically valued being. The concern for intersubjectivity is thus not only based on scientific concerns, but also concerns for the animals in themselves.

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Global food security: ethical and legal challenges

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 30 Oct 2010

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