Animal Rights and Animal Welfare | Issues in Ag

[berniv]

In a profit driven, degenerating, capitalist society, animal welfare is impossible to maintain. Animal welfare would only be acceptable in the transition of moving to animal rights, due to the logistics of such an objective. Thank you for the video.🌱

[SachinRaghavan]

Animal rights is a philosophy that seeks to give non-human animals equal moral respect and consideration as humans. The big flaw with animal welfare is that it tolerates practices that fundamentally abuse and kill animals including exploiting them for dairy and entertainment, confining them, and slaughtering them for meat and skin. It also holds that animals are property to humans. Animal rights abolishes all of these, while welfare is has good aspects it's a flawed ideal that retains that animals are inferior beings to humans, rights gives them an equal status and aims to reject and boycott the practices that abuse them as much as possible.

Rights says that we shouldn't support practices that abuse animals as much as we possibly can. They should not be commodified, bred into existence, or killed for products harvested off their bodies. Welfare fully allows this, just so long as they're not abused too harshly by the standards of welfare activists. But the acts of domesticating, breeding, confining, and slaughtering them are tolerated by animal welfare despite being fundamentally cruel. This is why more people prefer welfare over rights, cause it enables greater freedom to use animals like they're objects and inflict inherently cruel acts on them, which rights opposes.

[josephbarr]

Best policy/practice is to encourage people to stop eating/using meat/animal products. If families would raise children in this manner animal cruelty and suffering would be much less of an issue

[tafries]

Where in the hell are you people with the chickens that they are killing by stuffing live chickens in plastics bags and allowing them to sufficate there???? I don't want to hear your BS when it has been advertised all over the internet how inhumanely these birds are being killed. You people are all talk and no real action bullshit.