Animal welfare often feels like "nicer slavery." By improving conditions, welfare advocates make the public feel comfortable with exploitation. A "happy" egg from a cage-free hen still requires the maceration of male chicks (ground alive hours after birth). Welfare reform can lock in the status quo rather than dismantle it.
Rights were not about how comfortable the cage was. Rights were about whether the cage should exist at all.
Rights theory holds that using a sentient being as a resource is intrinsically wrong. It is not about better cages; it is about empty cages.
A mature ethical framework must confront hard cases:
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