Doesn animal rights require an “all or nothing” attitude in that rights theory can offer no practical strategy short of complete and immediate abolition of animal exploitation?
No. Ironically, there are important opportunities for us to move in a rights direction even within our present legal system. Currently, regulations of animal exploitation recognize animal interests only in so far as they facilitate the efficient use of animals as determined by human owners of nonhumans. For example, the protection offered by “humane” slaughter regulations for the most part do not go beyond providing regulations that will make it ultimately cheaper to produce meat by reducing costly injuries to animals (whose meat will then fail to conform to USDA regulations) and to workers, who are more likely to be hurt by animals in panic or pain. Such regulations, which require nothing more than the “humane” treatment of animals, recognize no interests that are not subject to being sacrificed or traded away in favor of human property interests. There are, however, others types of regulations that are much closer to rights, and that can have a real effect on animal suffering and ani
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