I think that animal welfare (which has been around for 200+ years) does not work and actually encourages people to feel better about eating meat and animal products. The whole "happy meat" and "free-range chicken and eggs" phenomenon only helps people to not feel guilty when sticking their forks into dead flesh.
Animal welfare refers to the viewpoint that it is morally acceptable for humans to use nonhuman animals for food, in
animal research, as clothing, and in entertainment, so long as unnecessary
suffering is avoided. The position is contrasted with the
animal rights position, which holds that other animals should not be used by, or regarded as the property of, humans.
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Animal Abolitionist refers to the viewpoint that it is not morally acceptable to use animals in any way, including as pets, food, in entertainment or for any kind of experimentation and medical research.
Groups like PETA are rewarding places like KFC in Canada and Whole Foods (which sells meat) for being animal friendly. I think this is wrong and only encouraging people to eat animals and animal products.
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