Animal Welfare is a utilitarian and regulationist approach. It accepts the premise that humans will continue to use animals for food, clothing, research, and entertainment. However, it argues that we have a moral and scientific obligation to minimize the suffering involved in that use.
Lab-grown meat—animal tissue grown from a biopsy without slaughter—might be the bridge that ends the schism. If you can eat a chicken nugget that has never seen a chicken, the welfarist gets the reduction of suffering (no farms needed), and the rights advocate gets the abolition of slaughter (no death needed). The question remains whether this technology will scale cheaply enough before climate change and antibiotic resistance (fueled by factory farms) overwhelm us. zoo bestiality xxx work