Animal Welfare Rights

From early settlers to modern day animal farming humans have paved way for creative accounting of animal abuse. There comes a point where the huge size of a problem does little to make it pivotal and the same can be seen in animal welfare where industry farmed animals are suffering every-day. The story of a single creature suffering is always powerful than that of mass suffering. For example- The recent death case of 15-year-old pregnant elephant in Kerala seems to motivate people for animal welfare but mass suffering of factory farmed chickens seems to be irrelevant. Animal exploitation exists because we live in an imperfect world for animals.

For as long as humanity has existed, humans have used animals as tools. From horses for transportation to dogs as companions and everything in between. And while the human use of animals many years ago was mainly used for survival, that time has come and gone.

The use of animals for food, protection, transport, and beyond are no longer needed for survival. However, there are huge markets for animal products and endless money invested in making people think they still need animal products in today’s day and age.

Animal Rights v/s Animal Welfare

There has been always a misunderstanding regarding these two concepts.

Animal welfare in general is the quality of animal’s life. It sets a mutually beneficial arrangement between people and animals that goes like this: “If we take care of the animals, the animals will take care of us.”

On the other hand, animal rights advocate for the moral and legal rights of the animals. They are packaged with maximum appeal with the idea that animals and humans are no different.

To follow a particular ideology is quite tough. As animal welfare supports factory farmed animals as long as they are “properly treated” whereas animal rights go for total separation of humans and animals with no human-animal bond.

Our Stance

Aristotle's Golden Mean

We believe in “Animal Welfare Rights.”

Fair treatment of animals in the food or entertainment industry is only theoretically possible but in reality, no industry would incur high costs for the well-being of their voiceless business runners.
With no bond between humans and animals we are not only moving towards mass extinction of animals but also a grave danger for human existence. Had the world accepted the animal rights supposition, there would be no pandas.

The end goal should always be a world where humans and animals co-exist peacefully. And if that means animal rights activists and animal welfare proponents co-existing peacefully in the meantime, then we will get there even faster. We must thrive and proliferate ourselves towards actions that will create a radical awareness among the masses against the animal cruelty and their sufferings.

Animals and their products have become an indivisible part of human’s life and expecting that their habits, culture, diet and traditions would change overnight and will pave ways for more ethical and sentimental treatment of animals then it’s a fool’s errand.

The first step should be downsizing the use of animal products and then only we can aim for bigger goals. The question is about the extent that we all can go to stop their exploitation.