ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the current thinking regarding the notion of animal integrity in the context of society's concerns for farmed animals and examines how current animal farming methods may respect or disrespect this concept. In addition to exploring how current farming methods impact on the integrity of farm animals, it highlights how emerging animal biotechnologies, such as cloning and transgenic techniques, affect integrity. The chapter also explores the current understanding of 'integrity'. It draws on the approach of Rutgers and Heegar, and Rollin as a way of exploring the understanding of integrity and how this concept can inform our understanding of our ethical responsibilities to farm animals. Despite the aims of various legal instruments and codes of good practice to provide freedoms and resources for animals, as well.
