Brilliant thoughts, sums up what the approach to many of these controversial issues should be
The BBC programme Inside Out recently carried an item on animal rights.
Presented by the well-known poet, writer and animal rights advocate Benjamin Zephaniah, it examined why some individuals in the ‘animal rights’ movement were prepared to go to extreme lengths in support of their beliefs. I was asked to take part, having once been a supporter of animal rights – a concept that I now believe to be both flawed and false.
But what exactly is meant by ‘animal rights’ and how does it differ from animal welfare? Indeed, does it matter, when so many people around the world sadly couldn’t care less about either? While animal welfare appears fairly obvious and straightforward – in reality, it’s not – ‘animal rights’ takes the concept of protection to an altogether different level.
The term ‘animal rights’ came into common use in the early 1970s, at the same time numerous groups…
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