: Aims to end all exploitation, arguing animals should not be used by humans, regardless of treatment. 🌍 Legal Protections and Advocacy
Animal welfare offers a path of mitigation—a world of bigger pens, better stunners, and more humane deaths. It is possible, practical, and popular.
Animal rights, by contrast, is a deontological (duty-based) philosophy. It rejects the premise of human use entirely. The most famous proponent, philosopher Tom Regan (author of The Case for Animal Rights ), argued that animals are "subjects-of-a-life." They have inherent value, consciousness, desires, memories, and a future.