Why Animals Matter

• Discusses some of the most pertinent questions surrounding animal welfare - should we project human emotions on to animals? How can science help us understand more about their quality of life? How does that affect us?
• Explains how animal welfare is important in relation to human issues such as food security and climate change
• Explores the latest scientific evidence about animal consciousness and animal emotions
• Outlines how animal welfare can be studied scientifically and what work still needs to be done
• Asserts a radical rethink about animal welfare and its future

Readership: Anyone interested in animals, their welfare, issues surrounding animal consciousness, and compassionate farming.

Marian Stamp Dawkins, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Oxford, Mary Snow Fellow in Biological Sciences, Somerville College, Oxford

Marian Stamp Dawkins was born in Hereford, England and has been fascinated by animal behaviour all her life. She read Zoology at the University of Oxford and studied with Niko Tinbergen, the Nobel Laureate and one of the 'founding fathers' of ethology, the study of animal behaviour. In 1998 she became Professor of Animal Behaviour at Oxford. Her research now centred increasingly on large scale commercial studies (broiler chickens, ducks and laying hens) as a bridge between academic research and the wider world of commercial farming.

"This is a sober, responsible way of making the case for animal welfare" - Peter Lewis, Daily Mail

Preface
1: Animal welfare, food security and climate change
2: Seduced by words
3: The trouble with anthropomorphism
4: Why consciousness is harder than you think
5: Consciousness unexplained
6: Emotional turmoil
7: Animal welfare without consciousness
8: The two pillars of animal welfare
9: What animals want
10: Animal welfare for a small planet
Notes and references