Posted in Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, tagged animal suffering, battery cages, chickens, cows, dairy, debeaking, egg industry, Factory Farming on July 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.
~Christine Stevens
Simple as it is, “The Golden Rule” is basically how I try to live my life. In my personal relationships, [...]
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Posted in Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Factory Farming, Farmed Animals, Veganism, tagged animal suffering, debeaking, health, neutering, Peter Singer, tail docking on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Many people confuse the terms “Animal Rights” and “Animal Welfare”. Before I started reading about all of this, I think I just assumed that rights and welfare were the same thing, and I used the terms interchangeably. The truth, however, is that that the two philosophies are strikingly different.
The animal rights philosophy argues that animals [...]
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