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Christian Ethics of Farmed Animal Welfare

农场动物福利的基督教伦理

基本信息

批准号：
AH/R014752/1
负责人：
David Clough
金额：
$ 57.98万
依托单位：
University of Chester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR014752%2F1
关键词：
Christian Ethics Farmed Animal Welfare

项目摘要

This project addresses an urgent issue that has profound effects on humans, animals, and the wider environment, and in which there is high public interest in the UK. The raising of farmed animals is a major global enterprise with massive impacts on domestic and wild animals, human food and water security, human health, and the environment. In 2013, 77 billion birds and mammals and around 6 trillion fish were used for human food globally, using 78% of available agricultural land, consuming 35% of global cereal output, resulting in more greenhouse gas emissions than those from transport globally, and contributing to a wide range of human health problems including antibiotic resistance, zoonotic diseases such as bird and swine flu, and increased incidence of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and stroke from the associated increase in meat consumption. The raising of farmed animals has grown markedly since the mid-20th century, primarily as a result of a revolutionary intensification of production methods. Poultry consumption has increased at three times that of human population growth in each of the past five decades and a 73% rise in demand for meat from 2010 levels is expected by 2050. Progressive intensification in the rearing of farmed animals, high and rising public concern about farmed animal welfare, and uncertainty about UK farmed animal welfare standards post-Brexit make this project timely.Churches and other Christian organizations in the UK have significant interests in and influence over animal farming in the UK, through ownership of agricultural land, investments in food producers and retailers, participation in policy debates, and consumption of animal products, and will therefore play an important role in public debates about farmed animal welfare. It is striking, therefore, that they currently have no policies concerning farmed animal welfare. This project will produce the first substantive academic discussion of the Christian ethics of farmed animal welfare and, by working with national churches and other organizational partners, will resource the development of new policy and influence institutional practice concerning the raising of farmed animals and consumption of products derived from them. It will also provide a new model of how to engage religious groups and other groups with particular commitments and concerns with the ethical implications of new scientific knowledge and its implications for practice.The project will use a collaborative research process between an interdisciplinary research team and institutional partners which will result in (1) a framework for institutional policy and practice; (2) a process for engaging institutions with that framework to enable development of policy and changes in practice; (3) the first academic monograph in the field and related journal outputs. The partners committed to this project are major Christian denominations representing the majority of the Christians in the UK (Church of England, Roman Catholic Church, Church of Scotland, Church in Wales, Methodist Church, and United Reformed Church), the globally leading charity addressing farmed animal welfare (Compassion in World Farming), groups representing farmers and veterinarians, and Christian animals organizations. The range of this collaboration and its potential influence to improve welfare outcomes is remarkable and unprecedented. The project will enable institutional changes in practice that will have substantial implications for farmed animal welfare and a resulting impact on human well-being and the environment. These changes will be enabled through a process that draws on graphic illustrators, a performance artist, and change facilitators, to help institutions appreciate the need for change and the route to achieve it. Beyond the funded period, new institutions will be engaged, and a planned successor project in the US will build on this one to generate even greater impacts.

该项目解决了一个对人类、动物和更广泛的环境产生深远影响的紧迫问题，并且英国公众对此高度关注。养殖动物是一项重要的全球事业，对家畜和野生动物、人类粮食和水安全、人类健康和环境产生巨大影响。 2013年，全球有770亿只鸟类和哺乳动物以及约6万亿条鱼类被用作人类食物，使用了78%的可用农业土地，消耗了全球谷物产量的35%，导致温室气体排放量比全球运输排放量还多，并造成了广泛的人类健康问题，包括抗生素耐药性、禽流感和猪流感等人畜共患疾病，以及心脏病、癌症、2型疾病的发病率增加糖尿病和中风与肉类消费的相关增加有关。自 20 世纪中叶以来，养殖动物的饲养量显着增长，这主要是生产方法革命性集约化的结果。过去 50 年，家禽消费量的增长速度是人口增长的三倍，预计到 2050 年，肉类需求将比 2010 年的水平增长 73%。养殖动物饲养的不断集约化、公众对养殖动物福利的高度关注以及英国脱欧后英国养殖动物福利标准的不确定性，使得该项目恰逢其时。英国的教会和其他基督教组织对畜牧业有着重大的兴趣和影响力。英国通过农业土地的所有权、对食品生产商和零售商的投资、参与政策辩论以及动物产品的消费，因此将在有关养殖动物福利的公共辩论中发挥重要作用。因此，令人惊讶的是，他们目前没有有关养殖动物福利的政策。该项目将首次对养殖动物福利的基督教伦理进行实质性学术讨论，并通过与国家教会和其他组织伙伴合作，为新政策的制定提供资源，并影响有关养殖动物饲养和养殖动物产品消费的机构实践。它还将提供一种新的模式，说明如何让宗教团体和其他团体对新科学知识的伦理影响及其对实践的影响做出特定的承诺和关注。该项目将采用跨学科研究团队和机构合作伙伴之间的合作研究过程，这将产生（1）机构政策和实践的框架； (2) 使机构参与该框架的流程，以促进政策的制定和实践的改变；（3）本领域第一部学术专着及相关期刊成果。致力于该项目的合作伙伴包括代表英国大多数基督徒的主要基督教教派（英格兰教会、罗马天主教会、苏格兰教会、威尔士教会、卫理公会和联合归正会）、全球领先的养殖动物福利慈善机构（世界农业同情组织）、代表农民和兽医的团体以及基督教动物组织。这种合作的范围及其对改善福利成果的潜在影响是显着且前所未有的。该项目将在实践中实现制度变革，这将对养殖动物福利产生重大影响，并对人类福祉和环境产生影响。这些变化将通过一个利用图形插画家、表演艺术家和变革推动者的过程来实现，以帮助机构认识到变革的必要性以及实现变革的途径。资助期结束后，新的机构将参与进来，美国计划的后续项目将在此基础上建立，以产生更大的影响。