Melanie Challenger

How can humans divert from ecological destruction and climate breakdown to ensure an environment in which all life can flourish? Ethicist Melanie Challenger, deputy co-chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and vice president of the RSPCA, has some of the answers. She discusses the meaning of animal dignity, and how contributors to the essay collection Animal Dignity offer interpretations rooted in science, conservation and agriculture, as well as morality, philosophy and the personal.