Agricultural Animal Bioethics Curriculum Module 3

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Module Lectures and Supplementary Materials

Thompson, Paul. 2012. "Is Sustainability Worth Debating?" In Dane Scott and Blake Francis, ed.s, Debating Science: Deliberation, Values, and the Common Good. Amherst, NY: Prometheus.
CAST Issue Paper, September 2013. "Animal Feed Vs. Human Food: Challenges and Opportunities in Sustaining Animal Agriculture Toward 2050."
Leopold, Aldo. 1948. "The Land Ethic." In Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, pp. 201-226. New York: Oxford University Press.

Cases stored on our web site that can be related to questions about sustainability include:
- "Horns of a Dilemma" (PDF)
- "Saving a Species through Trophy Hunting" (PDF)

Muir, James. 2014. "Fish, Feeds, and Food Security." Animal Frontiers, 3(1): 28-34.
Kenneth Black. 2008. "Environmental Aspects of Aquaculture." In Keith Culver and David Castle, eds., Aquaculture, Innovation and Social Transformation, Springer.
Felicity Huntingford. 2008. "Animal Welfare in Aquaculture." In Keith Culver and David Castle, eds., Aquaculture, Innovation and Social Transformation, Springer.
Lund, V, Medjell, CM., Röcklinsberg, H, Anthony, R and Hastein, T. 2007. "Expanding the Moral Circle: Farmed Fish as Objects of Moral Concern." Diseases of Aquatic Organisms: Disentangling Sociopolitical, Moral, Ethical and Scientific Aspects of Animal Welfare in Aquatic Organisms, 75: 109-118.
Anthony, R. and P.B. Thompson. 2004. "Biosafety, Ethics, and Regulation of Transgenic Animals," in S. Parekh, ed., Handbook of Genetically Modified Organisms–Mammalian, Microbial, and Plant Cells: Technologies, Economic Impact and Challenges (Humana Press), 183-205.

If you know of a related case study for classroom use, please email Gary Varner (g-varner@tamu.edu).