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An Odyssey with Animals

A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate

By: Adrian R. Morrison

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An Odyssey with Animals

A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate

By: Adrian R. Morrison

The relationship between animals and humans is more complex today than ever before. In addition to the animals that have served as household pets, and the farm animals that have provided labor and food, countless monkeys, rabbits, rats, and cats have enabled modern scientists to treat and cure humanity's most devastating illnesses. This aspect of animal-human interaction has engendered a bitter enmity between animal rights activists and the biomedical researchers whose work depends on the use (and oftentimes the killing) of laboratory animals. In An Odyssey with Animals, veterinarian and sleep researcher Adrian Morrison argues that humane animal use in biomedical research is an indispensable tool of medical science, and that efforts to halt such use constitute a grave threat to human health and wellbeing. The target of repeated acts of intimidation by anonymous animal rights activists because of his own research, Morrison is himself an animal advocate, and this volume is the culmination of his years spent negotiating the treacherous divide between a legitimate concern for animals and the importance of biomedical research. Drawing on the disciplines of philosophy, history, biology, and animal behavior, Morrison crafts a multi-faceted argument in favor of using animals humanely in research, the center of which is his staunch belief that human interests must be the primary concern of science and society. Along the way, Morrison delves into other human uses of animals in domains such as agriculture, hunting, and education, examining each use along with its philosophical, moral, and ecological implications. The result is a thought-provoking, intelligent and fair-minded discussion of a charged subject-- of the past and present of animals' relationships with humans, and how and why we should be able to use them as we do.

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019970564X

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Brandywine Boy

By: Adrian Russell Morrison

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Brandywine Boy

By: Adrian Russell Morrison

Brandywine Boy is a memoir that also includes relevant history, social history and explanations of some features of farm animals. It describes life and events that occurred in the mid-twentieth century as seen through a boy's eyes. Most of the book centers on the author's experiences on a small farm in the Brandywine Valley of southeastern Pennsylvania. The author had a number of Tom Sawyer-like adventures, which included building a log cabin after felling trees with friends 11 to 13 years of age, drinking from a swamp out of necessity, and jumping a barbed wire gate while riding his horse without a saddle. And without television a boy had to depend on his imagination while listening to radio shows. The author is a veterinarian so he speaks authoritatively about the inner workings of farm animals, providing for their needs and the nature of farming in the post-World War II era. Artist Gayle Joseph has added eleven evocative illustrations. Both teenagers and adults, particularly those who grew up in the same era as the author, will enjoy Brandywine Boy.

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An Odyssey with Animals

A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate

By: Adrian R. Morrison

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A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate

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