2025 Translating Ethical Principles into Law, Regulations and Workable Animal Welfare Practices.

  “Concerns about animal welfare have ethical foundations. Our undoubted domination of the sentient animals with which we interact has therefore raised ethical questions. These are related to whether this domination is provisionally acceptable, and if so, how its various purposes may be justified, and given animals’ capacity to suffer, what safeguards should be applied on their behalf. Offered here are examples of how ethical reasoning, and its operational consequences, can be made visible at every stage of developing, introducing, and operating infrastructures for managing animal welfare nationally.

Imperative to this endeavour is an up-to-date science-based understanding of animal welfare and how it may be assessed and managed.             

Influential individuals whose understanding is 20–30 years out of date, delay necessary welfare improvements. Once these infrastructural features are established, based on up-to-date knowledge, there is clear evidence of their dissemination and recommended  adoption internationally.” 

Mellor, D.J. and Uldahl, D.M. (2025). 

Animals 15, 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15060821