1 Introduction. - One Scientific Procedures and their Applications. - 2 Methods for genetic modification in farm animals and humans: present procedures and future opportunities. - 3 Animal biotechnology in medicine. - 4 Biotechnology in animal agriculture. - 5 The effects of biotechnology on animal welfare. - Two The Social Context. - 6 Why biotechnology?. - 7 Campaigning against transgenic technology. - 8 Consensus conferences and technological animals. - 9 The inevitability of animal biotechnology? Ethics and the scientific attitude. - 10 Needs fears and fantasies. - Three Ethical and Conceptual Issues. - 11 Intervention humility and animal integrity. - 12 On telos and genetic engineering. - 13 Intrinsic value and transgenic animals. - 14 Organs for transplant: animals moral standing and one view of the ethics of xenotransplantation. - 15 Making up animals: the view from science fiction. - 16 Species are dead. Long live genes . - Four Policy and Regulation. - 17 Biotechnology policy: four ethical problems and three political solutions. - 18 Advisory considerations on the scientific basis of the food safety evaluation of transgenic animals. - 19 Legislation and regulation: a view from the UK. - 20 Animal patenting: European law and the ethical implications. - 21 Controls on the care and use of experimental animals. - Five Concluding Essay. - 22 Ethics society and policy: a way forward. Language: English