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Breeding for pleasure: the value of pleasure and pain in evolution and animal welfare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

J Yeates
J Yeates*
Affiliation:
School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford BS40 5DU, UK; email: [email protected]
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Farming and laboratory industries face questions about whether to breed animals with altered capacities for pleasure and pain. This paper addresses this issue from different approaches to animal welfare based on experiences, fitness and naturalness. This can illuminate both the breeding-related issues and the different approaches themselves. These differences have practical implications for decisions about animal breeding. All three approaches will agree that pleasure that is adaptive in natural environments has positive value and that maladaptive pain has negative value. However, where animals’ environments will not be natural, experiences-based approaches may support breeding animals that experience more pleasure and less pain or insentient animals; whereas, in some cases, fitness-based and naturalness-based approaches might favour the breeding of animals that experience more pain and less pleasure.

Keywords

animal welfarebreedingextrinsic valuefitnesspleasuresignatory value
Type
Research Article
Information
Animal Welfare , Volume 19 , Issue S1: Proceedings of the UFAW International Symposium ‘Darwinian selection, selective breeding and the welfare of animals’ Bristol, 2009 , May 2010 , pp. 29 - 38
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© 2010 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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