ARCO's Abolitionists - A Vegan Forum

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The ideology of animal welfarism is the dominant paradigm when it comes to assessing how humans should treat nonhuman animals. Different forms of animal welfarism are also dominant among animal advocates, including neo-welfarists who self-identify as radical animal rights campaigners. This paper sets out to explore the reasons why animal welfarism is so prevalent, and suggests that socialisation processes inculcate influential welfarist norms and values in children which guide subsequent societal and also social movement participants’ attitudes to human-nonhuman relations.

Great essay, rags.