Calling this group Animal Welfare hides an Animal Rights agenda.
This group, Animal Welfare News & Animal Welfare Videos, misuses the term "Animal Welfare" by commandeering the term to promote an underlying agenda. Working towards the cessation of eating, keeping, using and raising animals for any purpose is Animal RIghts, not Animal Welfare. This group would more truthfully be called "Animal Rights News & Animal Rights Videos". I joined because I'm an animal welfare activist and not a vegan.
What's the difference? Animal Welfare advocates wish to free the billions of chickens, hogs and cows from the terrible conditions of industrial agriculture - where they're crowded together in horrific conditions and dosed with antibiotics to keep them alive, all in the pursuit of engineered efficiency and lower unit cost of production.
Animal Welfare means that people want to return to family farms where animals live a life, however short, where they have shelter, companionship, and the ability to engage in natural behaviors where chickens live outside pecking at bugs and pigs rooting in the woods, and dairy cows munching on pasture with their buddies. Yes, their lives end at human hands, but while they're alive they have a vastly different existence than in industrial factories that make up 90+ percent of America's meat production industry. Animal Welfare overlaps Animal Rights when animals are treated cruelly in zoos, circuses, and in the wild. We share common areas of concern and have much to help each other to rid the world of so much cruelty. But our paths diverge when it comes to animals for food.
Animal Welfare means working to relieve suffering now, rather than Animal Rights, which advocates waiting until every last person on the earth changes what they eat and all livestock cease to exist. I truly wonder which path animals would choose, if they could?
What's the difference? Animal Welfare advocates wish to free the billions of chickens, hogs and cows from the terrible conditions of industrial agriculture - where they're crowded together in horrific conditions and dosed with antibiotics to keep them alive, all in the pursuit of engineered efficiency and lower unit cost of production.
Animal Welfare means that people want to return to family farms where animals live a life, however short, where they have shelter, companionship, and the ability to engage in natural behaviors where chickens live outside pecking at bugs and pigs rooting in the woods, and dairy cows munching on pasture with their buddies. Yes, their lives end at human hands, but while they're alive they have a vastly different existence than in industrial factories that make up 90+ percent of America's meat production industry. Animal Welfare overlaps Animal Rights when animals are treated cruelly in zoos, circuses, and in the wild. We share common areas of concern and have much to help each other to rid the world of so much cruelty. But our paths diverge when it comes to animals for food.
Animal Welfare means working to relieve suffering now, rather than Animal Rights, which advocates waiting until every last person on the earth changes what they eat and all livestock cease to exist. I truly wonder which path animals would choose, if they could?
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There is a new group, entitled Animal Rights = Veganism. You might want to check out that one...
http://current.com/groups/animal-rights-veganism
It goes hand-in-hand with Veganism, a small group that's been around for about 15 months, give or take -- and which always was about animal RIGHTS, not welfare.
http://current.com/groups/veganism
Really glad you brought this up publicly. It's time people understood... and maybe even learn enough to genuinely care about all our voiceless friends.
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