The arc of moral history bends toward inclusion. We once thought it was acceptable to own people, to deny women personhood, to leave children in factories. In each case, the powerful argued that the powerless didn’t really feel as much as we do.
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734 was a sow. She lived in a gestation crate—a metal coffin two feet wide and seven feet long. She could not turn around. She could not take more than a single step forward or back. She had never seen mud, nor grass, nor the true dark of a moonless night. Her world was iron bars, slatted concrete, and the endless, suffocating proximity of her own waste. For further information on animal welfare and related
For the average consumer, the terms animal welfare and animal rights are often used interchangeably. Yet, they represent two distinct philosophical and practical approaches to how we treat non-human beings. One focuses on the quality of life while the animal remains under human control; the other questions the morality of human control altogether. She could not turn around
The debate between welfare and rights is currently being settled not in philosophy journals, but in laboratories and legislative halls.