Animal interests bibliography

Interest in not suffering

Dawkins, M. S. (1980) Animal suffering: The science of animal welfare, London: Chapman and Hall.

DeGrazia, D. & Rowan, A. (1991) “Pain, suffering, and anxiety in animals and humans”, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 12, pp. 193-211.

Edelman, D. B.; Baards, B. J. & Seth, A. K. (2005) “Identifying hallmarks of consciousness in non-mammalian species”, Consciousness and Cognition, 14, pp. 169-187.

Elwood, R. W. (2011) “Pain and suffering in invertebrates?”, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources Journal, 52, pp. 175-184.

Fossat, P.; Bacqué-Cazenave, J.; de Deuerwaerdère, P.; Delbecque, J.-P. & Cattaert, D. (2014) “Anxiety-like behavior in crayfish is controlled by serotonin”, Science, 13, pp. 1293-1297.

Gentle, M. J. (1992) “Pain in birds”, Animal Welfare, 1, pp. 235-247.

Seth, A. K.; Baars, B. J. & Edelman, D. B. (2005) “Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals”, Consciousness and Cognition, 14, pp. 119-139.

Smith, J. A. (1991) “A question of pain in invertebrates”, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources Journal, 33, pp. 25-31 [accessed on 25 december 2013].

Sneddon, L. U. (2009) “Pain and distress in fish”, Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources Journal Journal, 50, pp. 338-342 [accessed on 12 January 2014].

Weary, D. M.; Niel, L.; Flower, F. C. & Fraser, D. (2006) “Identifying and preventing pain in animals”, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 100, pp. 64-76.

Interest in living

Belshaw, C. (2009) Annihilation: The sense and significance of death, Dublin: Acumen.

Bradley, B. (2009) Well-being and death, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Brueckner, A. L. & Fischer, J. M. (1986) “Why is death bad?”, Philosophical Studies, 50, pp. 213-221.

Cigman, R. (1981) “Death, misfortune & species inequality”, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 10, pp. 47-54.

Feldman, F. (1992) Confrontations with the reaper: A philosophical study of the nature and value of death, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

French, P. A. & Wettstein, H. K. (eds.) (2000) Life and death: Metaphysics and ethics, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 69-83.

Frey, R. G. (1980) Interests and rights: The case against animals, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Glover, J. (1977) Causing death and saving lives, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Kamm, F. M. (1993) Morality, mortality: Vol I: Death and whom to save from it, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McMahan, J. (1988) “Death and the value of life”, Ethics, 99, pp. 32-61.

McMahan, J. (2002) The ethics of killing: Problems at the margins of life, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nagel, T. (1970) “Death”, Noûs, 4, pp. 73-80.

Scarre, G. (2007) Death, Stocksfield: Acumen.

Simmons, A. (2009) “Do animals have an interest in continued life? In defense of a desire-based approach”, Environmental Ethics, 31, pp. 375-392.

Singer, P. (2011 [1979]) Practical ethics, 3rd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Višak, T. & Garner, R. (eds.) (2016) The ethics of killing animals, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Višak, T. (2017) “Preventing the suffering of free-living animals: Should animal advocates begin the killing?”, Journal of Animal Ethics, 7, pp. 78-95.

The weight of animals’ interests

Dawkins, M. S. (1980) Animal suffering, New York: Chapman and Hall.

Dawkins, M. S. (1990) “From an animal’s point of view: Motivation, fitness, and animal welfare”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, pp. 1-61.

Dawkins, R. (1995) River out of Eden: A Darwinian view of life, ch. 5, New York: Basic Books.

DeGrazia, D. (1996) Taking animals seriously: Mental life & moral status, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2023) “Crops and livestocks products”, FAOSTAT [accessed on 16 September 2023].

Frey, R. G. (1980) Interests and rights: The case against animals, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Horta, O. (2010) “Debunking the idyllic view of natural processes: Population dynamics and suffering in the wild”, Télos, 17, pp. 73-88 [accessed on 5 January 2013].

Kagan, S. (1989) The limits of morality, Oxford: Clarendon University Press.

Leahy, M. P. T. (1991) Against liberation: Putting animals in perspective, London: Routledge.

Matheny, G. & Chan, K. M. A. (2005) “Human diets and animal welfare: The illogic of the larder”, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 18, pp. 579-594.

Matheny, G. & Leahy, C. (2007) “Farm-animal welfare, legislation and trade”, Law and Contemporary Problems, 70, pp. 325-358 [accessed on 21 September 2012].

Mood, A & Brooke, P. (2024) “Estimating global numbers of fishes caught from the wild annually from 2000 to 2019”, Animal Welfare, 33, e6 [accessed on 11 May 2024].

Mood, A.; Lara, E.; Boyland, N. K. & Brooke P. (2023) “Estimating global numbers of farmed fishes killed for food annually from 1990 to 2019”, Animal Welfare, 32, e12 [accessed on 11 May 2024].

Ng, Y.-K. (1995) “Towards welfare biology: Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering”, Biology and Philosophy, 10, pp. 255-285.

Norwood, F. B. & Lusk, J. J. (2011) Compassion, by the pound: The economics of farm animal welfare, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pluhar, E. (1995) Beyond prejudice: The moral significance of human and nonhuman animals, Durham: Duke University Press.

Rollin, B. E. (1989) The unheeded cry: Animal consciousness, animal pain and science, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Sabrosky, C. W. (1952) “How many insects are there?”, in United States Department of Agriculture. Insects: The yearbook of agriculture, Washington, D. C.: United States Department of Agriculture.

Salem, D. J. & Rowan, A. N. (eds.) (2001) The state of the animals 2001, Washington: Humane Society of the United States.

Sapontzis, S. F. (1990) “The meaning of speciesism and the forms of animal suffering”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, pp. 35-36.

Singer, P. (1990) “The significance of animal suffering”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, pp. 9-12.

Tomasik, B. (2007) “How much direct suffering is caused by various animal foods?”, Essays on Reducing Suffering [accessed on 17 June 2016].

Tomasik, B. (2009a) “Comments on Compassion by the pound”, Essays on Reducing Suffering [accessed on 10 January 2014].

Tomasik, B. (2009b) “Do bugs feel pain?”, Essays on Reducing Suffering [accessed on 15 December 2016].

Tomasik, B. (2009c) “How many wild animals are there?”, Essays on Reducing Suffering [accessed on 15 December 2016].

Tomasik, B. (2012) “Suffering in animals vs. humans”, Essays on Reducing Suffering [accessed on 3 May 2015].

Tomasik, B. (2015) “The importance of wild animal suffering”, Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism, 3, pp. 133-152 [accessed on 20 November 2015].