The conflict between welfare and rights is best illustrated by the debate over . A welfare advocate celebrates the end of battery cages as a massive reduction in suffering. A rights advocate argues that even a spacious barn involves the slaughter of male chicks (who are useless to the egg industry) and the eventual slaughter of spent hens. For the rights advocate, welfare improvements are a "slavery with better conditions."
(ensuring conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering). The conflict between welfare and rights is best
The journey toward a more compassionate world is not a straight line. Whether one leans toward the pragmatic improvements of animal welfare or the idealistic goals of animal rights, the objective remains the same: a recognition that we share this planet with billions of other sensing, feeling beings. For the rights advocate, welfare improvements are a