The Moral Compass: Navigating Animal Welfare and Animal Rights
Furthermore, the science of animal sentience is catching up with the rights philosophy. Dr. Jonathan Balcombe and others have shown that fish feel pain, chickens have complex social hierarchies, and pigs exhibit optimism and pessimism (affective states). As we learn more, the welfarist position becomes harder to maintain. If an animal has a complex inner life, can simply providing "freedom from fear" be enough if we still intend to kill it? The Moral Compass: Navigating Animal Welfare and Animal
The question isn't whether you love animals. Everyone claims to love animals. The question is: As we learn more, the welfarist position becomes
The "Five Freedoms," developed by the British Farm Animal Welfare Council in 1965, remain the gold standard of welfare philosophy: The question isn't whether you love animals
One of the most universally useful features for individuals wanting to contribute to animal welfare is .