Animal Abuse in Scientific Research in Moo

Limin WU, Xin ZHOU

Abstract


Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley’s Moo, a comedy full of ironies towards American agriculture and university system, also contains huge concern for animal welfare and philosophical thinking of human-animal relationship. Through three typical cases of different scientific research projects in the novel, Jane Smiley discloses animal abuse existing in scientific research under the commercialization of animal science, and warns us against the instrumentalist view of animals in science field.

Keywords


Animal abuse; Scientific research; Animal testing; Instrumentalism

Full Text:

PDF

References


Aaltola, E. (2012). Animal suffering: Philosophy and culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

“Animal Testing.” (2022). Wikipedia. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing>.

“Animal Use Statistics.” (2012). Humane Society International (HSI). <http://www. hsi.org/campaigns/end_animal_testing/facts/statistics.html>.

Bernstein, Mark H. (2004). Without a tear: Our tragic relationship with animals. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press.

Fox, M. (2006). Agriculture, livestock, and biotechnology: Values, profits, and ethics. In P. Waldau and K. Patton (Eds.), A communion of subjects: Animals in religion, science, and ethics (pp.556-567). New York: Columbia University Press.

Ormandy, E. H., et al. (2011). Genetic engineering of animals: Ethical issues, including welfare concerns. The Canadian Veterinary Journal, 52(5), 544-550.

Plumwood, V. (2005). Environmental culture: The ecological crisis of reason. New York: Taylor & Francis e-Library.

Regan, Tom. (1983). The case for animal rights. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Regan, Tom. (2003). Animal rights, human wrongs: An introduction to moral philosophy. New York: Roman & Littlefield Publishers.

Rollin, B. (2006). Ethics, biotechnology, and animals. In P. Waldau and K. Patton (Eds.), A communion of subjects: Animals in religion, science, and ethics (pp.519-532). New York: Columbia University Press.

Smiley, J. (2009). Moo. New York: Anchor Books.

Smith, K. R. (2002). Animal genetic manipulation: A utilitarian response. Bioethics, 16(1), 55-71.

Twine, R. (2010). Animals as biotechnology: Ethics, sustainability and critical animal studies. London: Earthscan Publications.

Warkentin, T. (2006). Dis/integrating animals: ethical dimensions of the genetic engineering of animals for human consumption. AI and Society, 20(1), 82-102.

Woodward, W. (2008). The animal gaze: Animal subjectivities in Southern African narratives. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/12725

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2022 Author(s)

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Reminder

  • How to do online submission to another Journal?
  • If you have already registered in Journal A, then how can you submit another article to Journal B? It takes two steps to make it happen:

Submission Guidelines for Canadian Social Science

We are currently accepting submissions via email only. The registration and online submission functions have been disabled.

Please send your manuscripts to css@cscanada.net，or css@cscanada.org for consideration. We look forward to receiving your work.

 Articles published in Canadian Social Science are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY).

 

Canadian Social Science Editorial Office

Address: 1020 Bouvier Street, Suite 400, Quebec City, Quebec, G2K 0K9, Canada.
Telephone: 1-514-558 6138 
Website: Http://www.cscanada.net; Http://www.cscanada.org 
E-mail:caooc@hotmail.com; office@cscanada.net

Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture