"The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'" – Jeremy Bentham, 1789.
works with industry and government. It has achieved actual legal bans on extreme confinement in the EU (the gold standard) and several US states. Critics call this "slow progress" but defend it as achievable. The downside: it legitimizes the animal-use industries it seeks to reform. When a company gets a "certified humane" label, slaughter proceeds. bestiality girl and dog animal sex bestialityavi top
The question is no longer if animals deserve moral consideration, but how much . And by asking the question at all, we have already left a barbaric past behind. The only remaining variable is the speed of our departure. "The question is not, 'Can they reason