Animal Business

Monique Janssens is ethicus en neerlandicus. Zij werkt als zelfstandig adviseur ethiek, MVO en integriteit voor bedrijven en organisaties op het gebied van onderwijs, onderzoek, dierenwelzijn, menselijk welzijn en natuurbescherming. Ze publiceerde over onder andere ethiek, dierethiek en zelfmoordpreventie. Haar doel met dit boek is de dierethiek een definitieve plek te geven in bedrijfsethiek en MVO. Zij eet plantaardig. Monique Janssens studied Dutch Language and Literature, and Applied Ethics, both at Utrecht University, and did an Honours course in CSR at the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a regional manager for the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals (Dierenbescherming) and as a Public Information Officer at the Dutch office of the Wordl Society for the Protection of Animals (niw: World Animal Protection). She started her own business in communications consultancy called JT&P Communicatie and the additional brand Ethisch Bedrijf (Ethical Business) for ethics consultancy. Nowadays, she combines ethics consultancy with a job at the Animal Welfare Body of Utrecht University and the University Medical Center Utrecht. Monique Janssens completed this PhD thesis as an external doctoral candidate at the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has published several articles and two books (in Dutch): one on suicide attempts and suicide prevention, together with Professor of Psychiatry Jan Swinkels: Een tweede leven: Ware verhalen over zelfmoordpogingen (A second life: True stories about suicide attempts, Scriptum Psychologie, 2008), and one containing essays on animal ethics: Dieren en wij: Hun welzijn, onze ethiek (Animals and us: Their welfare, our ethics, A3 boeken, 2010). She is a member of the New Animal Ethics Committee (Nieuwe Dierexperimentencommissie) and the Netherlands National Committee for the protection of animals used for scientific purpose (Nationaal Commité advies dierproevenbeleid).