Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Use New Genetic Technologies and Animal Breeding Methods Carefully to Avoid Problems / Temple Grandin -- Domestication to Dolly and Beyond: A Brief History of Animal Modification / Andrew Gardiner -- Good for Whom? Differences between Human and Animal Enhancement / Sarah Chan -- Working Equids: The Welfare of Those Worked to Their Limit / Melissa Upjohn and Kimberly Wells -- Genetics and Other Technologies for Increasing the Productivity of Cattle, Sheep and Pigs: Welfare Implications / Temple Grandin -- Technologies for Increasing the Productivity of Poultry: Welfare Implications / Stefan Gunnarsson -- Selective Breeding, Cloning and Gene Editing of Dogs and Cats for Appearance and Performance Traits / Rowena M.A. Packer -- Methods to Increase Fish Production: Welfare and Sustainability Implications / Felicity Huntingford, Jimmy Turnbull and Sunil Kadri -- Welfare Concerns in Genetically Modified Laboratory Mice and Rats / Nikki Osborne, David Morton and Jan-Bas Prins -- Cloning, Editing and GMOs for Animal Enhancement / Elisabeth Ormandy -- From Bionic Cat to Superdog: Ethical Challenges of Advanced Prosthetic Technology in Veterinary Medicine / Manuel Magalh�aes-Sant�Ana -- Animal Welfare and the Brave New World of Modifying Animals / Donald M. Broom -- A Duty to the Enhanced, not a Duty to Enhance: Welfare Responsibilities Associated with Domestication / Stephen May -- Pressing Animals Beyond Their Biological Limits / Bernard Rollin -- Concluding: Animals Pushed to Their Limits / Martin Whiting.

This book contains 15 chapters on biological limits of domestic animals. Topics discuses are: use new genetic technologies and animal breeding methods carefully to avoid problems (introduction); domestication to Dolly and beyond (a brief history of animal modification); good for whom (differences between human and animal enhancement); working equids (the welfare of those worked to their limit); genetics and other technologies for increasing the productivity of cattle, sheep and pigs (welfare implications); technologies for increasing the productivity of poultry (welfare implications); selective breeding, cloning and gene editing of dogs and cats for appearance and performance traits; methods to increase fish production (welfare and sustainability implications); welfare concerns in genetically modified laboratory mice and rats; cloning, editing and GMOs for animal enhancement; from bionic cat to superdog (ethical challenges of advanced prosthetic technology in veterinary medicine); animal welfare and the brave new world of modifying animals; a duty to the enhanced, not a duty to enhance (welfare responsibilities associated with domestication); pressing animals beyond their biological limits; and animals pushed to their limits (conclusion). This book is intended for farm owners and managers, geneticists, animal scientists, veterinarians and students.

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