Introduction
The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (www.oxfordanimalethics.com), founded in 2006 by its director Professor Andrew Linzey, is an independent Centre with the aim of pioneering ethical perspectives on animals through academic, research, teaching, and publication. The Centre is the world’s first dedicated to pioneering ethical perspectives on animals. An independent “think tank” for the advancement of progressive thought about animals, the Centre has more than 100 advisers and 60 fellows drawn from a variety of academic disciplines throughout the world.
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The Centre aims to put ethical concern for animals on the intellectual agenda and contribute to an enlightened public debate about animals. It believes that the rational case for animals is frequently understated within academia and misrepresented in the media. By creating a worldwide association of accomplished academics from all disciplines who want to pioneer ethical perspectives on animals, the Centre...
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Linzey, A., Linzey, C. (2014). Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. In: Thompson, P.B., Kaplan, D.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0929-4_366
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