New research from Bob Fischer, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University, argues that incorporating animal welfare into policymaking may improve policy and practice.
Fischer co-authored the study along with Mark Budolfson, a faculty member at the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, and Noah Scovronick, a faculty member at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. The researchers observed that animal welfare is rarely considered during policymaking, explained why current tools make it hard to incorporate the wellbeing of animals into public policy and identified methods for remedying these issues.
Their study, “Animal welfare: Methods to improve policy and practice,” is published in the journal Science (https://www.science. org/doi/10.1126/science. adi0121).
