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The Echo in the Warehouse

3. Legal and Political Evolution

welfarist

The most successful animal advocacy of the last decade has been . The banning of cosmetic testing on animals in the EU (2009), the phase-out of battery cages for hens in many US states, and the end of the cruel confinement of pigs (Proposition 12 in California) were not wins for animal rights. They were wins for welfare. They did not end farming; they made farming less hellish.

Animal Welfare: Global Issues, Trends and Challenges

: A scientific overview that discusses the impossibility of a single scientific definition for welfare but proposes a "working description" that accounts for an animal's physical health, environment, and feelings. Ethical & Legal Analysis

Our relationship with animals is a pendulum swinging between necessity and sentiment.

Rights-focused / Abolitionist