This article focuses on engagements with elephants in diverse contexts, inquiring why some scholars are indifferent or even actively opposed to discourses that emphasise elephant suffering. In order to address this question, this article will explore three interrelated streams within social science: …

The broad field of environmental ethics, animal welfare, animal liberation, and animal rights literature indicate that all encounters between humans and animals are ethically charged. In this article, I shall examine how environmental ethics or animal welfare/rights/liberation literature translate into …

The Department of Pathobiology of the Veterinary Faculty at the University of Utrecht is investigating the causes of the death of stranded porpoises. The causes of death of porpoises are assessed by internal and external investigation at the Utrecht University. At dissections, the organs of the dead …

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INTRODUCTION: Sufficient high quality dietary protein intake is required to prevent or treat sarcopenia in elderly people. Therefore, the intake of specific protein sources as well as their timing of intake are important to improve dietary protein intake in elderly people. OBJECTIVES: to assess the consumption …

Waterborne diseases are posing a constant threat for people. In developing countries there is a lack of microbiologically safe drinking water and in the developed countries there are occasional waterborne disease outbreaks. These diseases are caused by bacteria or parasites which can be found in various …

Uit onderzoek is gebleken dat tien procent van de basisschoolleerlingen gepest wordt. Bij pesten zijn drie groepen betrokken, namelijk de pester(s), de gepeste en de omstanders. Pesten heeft negatieve gevolgen voor de drie groepen. De gevolgen kunnen na veertig jaar nog steeds spelen, denk hierbij aan …

Het is bekend dat paarden mensen kunnen genezen, maar andersom werkt het ook, mensen kunnen paarden laten genezen. Met dit idee is in Nederland het project ‘Your Horse in Balance’ ontstaan. De Adalia Hoeve in Scheerwolde heeft een concept ontwikkeld met als hoofddoel een win-winsituatie te kunnen bereiken, …

This article focuses on the role of ethical perspectives such as deep ecology and animal rights in relation to environmental education, arguing that such perspectives are well-placed to reposition students as responsible planetary citizens. We focus on the linkage between non-consequentialism, animal …

This short paper describes a workshop on “Establishing criteria for an independent 3R-index: Access to 3Rs” and the corporate responsibility of industry for the use of animals in testing. 28 August 2014 Prague, at the World Congress on Alternatives Animal Use in the Life Sciences