Animal welfare and animal rights are very different beasts
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Animal welfare and animal rights are very different beasts
Robert John Young, University of Salford
More than 20 years ago, the university department where I was doing my PhD was fire bombed by animal rights activists. At the time, I was conducting research into animal welfare, as were many of the staff in my department. I found it hard to understand why a research department whose main objective was to improve the well-being of animals would be the target for such an attack.
I suspect most p...
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