Routledge
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2032
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Animals are crucial to the functioning of any society: they provide humans with food labour raw materials modes of transport companionship scientific knowledge through observation and experimentation and forms of leisure and entertainment. Given both the wide variety of ways in which animals are involved in human societies and also the broad range of controversies (from vivisection for scientific and commercial purposes to factory farming) that have arisen the study of animals is by its very nature interdisciplinary.