Animal Suffering and Public Relations

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Núria Almiron is a co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics and a tenured professor in the Department of Communication at Pompeu Fabra University. Her areas of research include the ethics and political economy of communication-particularly interest groups and persuasive communication-from a critical animal studies perspective. She is the author/editor of several books in various languages, the latest being 'Like an animal'. Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering (coedited with Natalie Khazaal, Brill 2021). Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Journalism Studies, Environmental Communication, and European Journal of Communication.

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Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal industrial complex - the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals.

Résumé
Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations, mainly persuasive communication and lobbying, as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal industrial complex the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals.

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PART I. Introduction

• Animal suffering, the animal-industrial complex, and the ethics of persuasion Núria Almiron

PART II: Public relations, persuasion, and compassion towards other animals

• On Critical Public Relations and the moral consideration of other animals Núria Almiron & Laura Fernández

• On compassion, influence, and animal suffering Olatz Aranceta-Reboredo & Núria Almiron

PART III. The ethics of persuasion of the animal-industrial complex

• Harming animals, degrading the public sphere. The ethics of persuasion of the animal-based food industry Eze Paez & Pablo Magaña

Case study: The meat lobby and the World Health Organization

Laura Fernández & Núria Almiron

• Fatal Attractions. The ethics of persuasion of the animal-based entertainment industry Paula Casal & Macarena Montes Franceschini

Case study: SeaWorld against the documentary Blackfish

Laura Fernández & Núria Almiron

• For an Ethics of Care. The ethics of persuasion of the animal experimentation industry Fabiola Leyton

Case study: Huntingdon Life Science and the SHAC Campaign

Laura Fernández & Núria Almiron

• Deadly Influence. The ethics of persuasion of the environmental management industry Catia Faria

Case Study: The Catalan Hunting Federation and Wild Boars Management

Laura Fernández & Núria Almiron

PART IV. Rejecting speciesism

• Lobbying and persuasion on behalf of nonhuman animals. Psychological insights Daniela Romero Waldhorn

• Speciesism and Persuasion. A Conclusion Oscar Horta, Núria Almiron and Dayron Terán

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