(providing an appropriate environment and shelter).
Over the last 50 years, animal welfare has moved from a fringe concern to a mainstream legal and ethical consideration. While animal rights (abolition) remains a minority position, welfare reforms have achieved real, measurable reductions in suffering for billions of animals. The next frontier includes: rabbit bestiality 2021
This knowledge creates a profound moral dissonance. We are a species that cherishes its own pets, spends billions on wildlife conservation, and yet oversees the industrial slaughter of over 80 billion land animals and over a trillion fish every year. This is not a hunting-gathering scale of death. This is a holocaust of the mundane, hidden behind the concrete walls of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) and the cheerful branding of slaughterhouses as "farms." (providing an appropriate environment and shelter)