title: [Ethical demands in animal production].
abstract: Since the second world war, particularly within the last twenty years the structure of agriculture has been changed dramatically by intensifying, specialization and rationalization of every aspect of production methods. This has led to a severe change in the human-animal relationship. Large numbers cause alienation of man from the farm animals confided to him. Extremely high pressure of performance and mechanization of livestock husbandry often overstress the adaptability of the animals. It is to be expected that introduction of new methods of biotechnology will increase this process. The problems caused by this development necessitate to revise the management of animal production and husbandry, judgement to be based on ethical criterions. Farm animals are to be recognized and treated as creatures again. But in the context of livestock husbandry human-human relations are to be reconsidered under ethical aspects, too. In doing so, the scientific scale of values fails, determining correct or incorrect, true or false, whereas ethical judgement uses good or bad as criterions. The personal view is given, making use of some examples.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Loeffler
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000639:trends*; D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000639:trends*; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D004989:Ethics
vernacular_title: Ethische Forderungen an die Tierproduktion.