Animals and Business Ethics

1. Animals and Business Ethics.- Part I: Animals and Business Practices, Work, Labour and Jobs.- 2. Are Animals Always Commodified in the Context of Business?.- 3. (Not) Serving Animals and Aiming Higher: Cultivating Ethical and Sustainable Plant-Based Businesses and Humane Jobs.- 4. Prospects for an Animal-Friendly Business Ethics.- 5. Working Animals, Ethics and Critical Theory.- Part II: Animal Welfare, Animal Agriculture and Animals as Food.- 6. Competition, Regulation, and the Race to the Bottom in Animal Agriculture.- 7. Corporate Disclosure Initiative for Animal Welfare.- 8. McVeg*n: A Critical Analysis of Vegetarianism, Business Ethics and Animals as Food.- 9. Animal Suffering, Environmental Impact, and Lab-Cultured Meat.- 10. Gene Editing, Animal Disenhancement and Ethical Debates: A Conundrum for Business Ethics?.- Part III: Human and Animal Relationships in the Context of Businesses and Industries.- 11. Moral Feelings, Compartmentalization and Desensitization in the Practice of Animal Experimentation.- 12. Denied Relationship: Moral Stress in the Vocational Killing of Non-Human Animals.- 13. Dolphins, Captivity and Cruelty.- 14. Animals as Stakeholders.

Natalie Thomas is an adjunct faculty member in the philosophy department at the University of Guelph, and a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. She is the author of Animal Ethics and the Autonomous Animal Self  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).