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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156853008X291453 Society and Animals 16 (2008) 185-187 www.brill.nl/soan Bostock Replies to Zamir Stephen Bostock Honorary Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, 69 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8LT, Scotland, U.K. mail@stephenbostock.fsnet.co.uk Tzachi Zamir, in his article “Th e Welfare-based Defense of Zoos” ( Society & Animals , 2007, pp. 191-201), argues that, while companion animals and ani- mals on the farm can be kept and used in an acceptable way rather than exploited, this is not the case with animals in zoos. His argument for the unac- ceptability of zoos includes an examination and rebuttal of my (as he calls it) “welfare-based defense of zoos” in my Zoos and Animal Rights (1993). I con- sider that zoos at their best do not merit Zamir’s condemnation, but in any case his account of my views is seriously flawed at two points. (Page refer- ences—unless otherwise stated—will be to Zamir’s article.) I agree with Zamir’s view that the paternalism involved both in keeping companion animals and in keeping farm animals can be justified (pp. 193, 194). I also accept his initial outline of my position, that four main criteria for judging well being are degrees
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Published: Jan 1, 2008
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