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The welfare approach has achieved tangible, life-saving victories. The European Union’s ban on conventional battery cages for laying hens, the UK’s recognition of decapod crustaceans as sentient beings, and the global shift towards stunning before slaughter are all triumphs of welfare science. These reforms, driven by bodies like the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), rest on a vast body of empirical research demonstrating that animals are complex sentient beings with rich emotional and cognitive lives. Welfarism is pragmatic; it works within the existing political and economic systems, offering incremental improvements that appeal to a broad public conscience uneasy with factory farming but unwilling to abandon meat.

In The Case for Animal Rights , Regan advanced the rights-based approach. He argued that animals are "subjects-of-a-life" with inherent value. Therefore, using them as a means to human ends violates their intrinsic worth. 3. The Five Freedoms: The Gold Standard of Welfare