Animal welfare asks us to be less cruel today. Animal rights asks us to imagine a world without exploitation tomorrow. We may not reach the rights horizon within our lifetimes. But by implementing rigorous welfare standards, we build the roads we will travel to get there.
"Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment because they are 'subjects-of-a-life.' They have beliefs, desires, memory, a sense of the future, and a psychological identity that persists over time." Animal welfare asks us to be less cruel today
The tension is most visible in specific arenas. a sense of the future