The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 33 Bernice Bovenkerk Jozef Keulartz Editors Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics Volume 33 Series Editors Michiel Korthals, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands Paul B. Thompson, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA The ethics of food and agriculture is confronted with enormous challenges. Scien- tific developments in the food sciences promise to be dramatic; the concept of life sciences, that comprises the integral connection between the biological sciences, the medical sciences and the agricultural sciences, got a broad start with the genetic revo- lution. In the mean time, society, i.e., consumers, producers, farmers, policymakers, etc, raised lots of intriguing questions about the implications and presuppositions of this revolution, taking into account not only scientific developments, but societal as well. If so many things with respect to food and our food diet will change, will our food still be safe? Will it be produced under animal friendly conditions of husbandry and what will our definition of animal welfare be under these conditions? Will food production be sustainable and environmentally healthy? Will production consider the interest of the worst off and the small farmers? How will globalisation and liber- alization of markets influence local and regional food production and consumption patterns? How will all these developments influence the rural areas and what values and policies are ethically sound? All these questions raise fundamental and broad ethical issues and require enor- mous ethical theorizing to be approached fruitfully. Ethical reflection on criteria of animal welfare, sustainability, liveability of the rural areas, biotechnology, policies and all the interconnections is inevitable. Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics contributes to a sound, pluralistic and argumentative food and agricultural ethics. It brings together the most important and relevant voices in the field; by providing a platform for theoretical and practical contributors with respect to research and education on all levels. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6215 Bernice Bovenkerk · Jozef Keulartz Editors Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene Editors Bernice Bovenkerk Jozef Keulartz Wageningen University and Research Radboud University Wageningen, The Netherlands Nijmegen, The Netherlands This work is part of the research programme 2017-I BOO with project number 023.010.030, which is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) ISSN 1570-3010 ISSN 2215-1737 (electronic) The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics ISBN 978-3-030-63522-0 ISBN 978-3-030-63523-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021, corrected publication 2021. This book is an open access publication. 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This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland The original version of the book was revised: The author’s name is corrected from “O’Neill, J.S. and M.H. Hastings” to “David A. Leavens” in reference cross citations and list for Chapters 1 and 3. The correction to the book is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_32 Acknowledgments This edited volume has benefitted considerably from the workshop that was held in Wageningen in April 2019, which was made possible by an innovative research grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (OZSW), titled "Anthro- pocene Ethics: Taking Animal Agency Seriously" (projectnr 016.Vidi.185.128) and an Aspasia grant (grant nr 015.014.023). The editors would like to thank Eva Meijer for her help with editing a number of the chapters. We would like to thank all the authors of this book for their interesting contributions, stimulating discussions, and collaborative spirit. We would also like to thank Inge Ruisch for her support in the organization of the workshop. We are very grateful to the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. We would furthermore like to express our gratitude to the editorial team of Springer, in particular Floor Oosting and Christopher Wilby, for their trust and the pleasant collaboration. vii Contents 1 Animals in Our Midst: An Introduction ......................... 1 Jozef Keulartz and Bernice Bovenkerk 2 Animal Conservation in the Twenty-First Century ............... 27 Hugh A. H. Jansman Part I Animal Agents 3 Taking Animal Perspectives into Account in Animal Ethics ........ 49 Eva Meijer and Bernice Bovenkerk 4 Turning to Animal Agency in the Anthropocene .................. 65 Charlotte E. Blattner 5 Animal Difference in the Age of the Selfsame .................... 79 Nathan Kowalsky 6 Should the Lion Eat Straw Like the Ox? Animal Ethics and the Predation Problem ..................................... 99 Jozef Keulartz 7 Justified Species Partiality ..................................... 123 Ronald Sandler and John Basl 8 Humanity in the Living, the Living in Humans ................... 141 Michiel Korthals 9 Comment: The Current State of Nonhuman Animal Agency ...... 155 Joost Leuven Part II Domesticated Animals 10 An Introduction to Ecomodernism .............................. 163 Hidde Boersma ix x Contents 11 Place-Making by Cows in an Intensive Dairy Farm: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Nonhuman Animal Agency ......... 177 Leonie Cornips and Louis van den Hengel 12 The Vanishing Ethics of Husbandry ............................. 203 Paul B. Thompson 13 Reimagining Human Responsibility Towards Animals for Disaster Management in the Anthropocene ................... 223 Andreia De Paula Vieira and Raymond Anthony 14 The Decisions of Wannabe Dog Keepers in the Netherlands ....... 255 Susan Ophorst and Bernice Bovenkerk 15 Comment: Animals in ‘Non-Ideal Ethics’ and ‘No-Deal Ethics’ .... 275 Erno Eskens Part III Urban Animals 16 Stray Agency and Interspecies Care: The Amsterdam Stray Cats and Their Humans ....................................... 287 Eva Meijer 17 “Eek! A Rat!” ................................................ 301 Joachim Nieuwland and Franck L. B. Meijboom 18 Interpreting the YouTube Zoo: Ethical Potential of Captive Encounters ................................................... 323 Yulia Kisora and Clemens Driessen 19 Wild Animals in the City: Considering and Connecting with Animals in Zoos and Aquariums ........................... 341 Sabrina Brando and Elizabeth S. Herrelko 20 Comment: Encountering Urban Animals: Towards the Zoöpolis .................................................. 361 Lauren E. Van Patter Part IV Wild Animals 21 Should We Provide the Bear Necessities? Climate Change, Polar Bears and the Ethics of Supplemental Feeding .............. 377 Clare Palmer 22 Understanding and Defending the Preference for Native Species ....................................................... 399 Ned Hettinger 23 Coexisting with Wolves in Cultural Landscapes: Fences as Communicative Devices ..................................... 425 Martin Drenthen Contents xi 24 Consolations of Environmental Philosophy ...................... 445 Mateusz Tokarski 25 On Hunting: Lions and Humans as Hunters ..................... 469 Charles Foster 26 Comment: Sharing Our World with Wild Animals ............... 483 J. A. A. Swart Part V Animal Artefacts 27 De-extinction and Gene Drives: The Engineering of Anthropocene Organisms .................................... 495 Christopher J. Preston 28 Does Justice Require De-extinction of the Heath Hen? ............ 513 Jennifer Welchman 29 The Welfarist Account of Disenhancement as Applied to Nonhuman Animals ......................................... 533 Adam Shriver