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ANIMAL WELFARE

A CHALLENGE

It is submitted for your consideration

1. That there can be no difference in PRINCIPLE between the right treatment of Human Beings and the right treatment of Animals.

2. That the exploitation of Animals differs only in KIND and DEGREE from the exploitation of Human Beings.

3. That acceptance in principle of the exploitation of animals involves
acceptance in principle of exploitation generally.

4. That candour demands the recognition of exploitation where 1' it
occurs, and acknowledgment of responsibility therefor i

~ 5. That study of theneed for and means of improving 'the"condition

and treatment of animals must rationauy proceed from the departure- point
of the ills inflicted Upon them by mankind, and not from that of the
excuses proffered for the infliction of SuCh ills

6. . That examination proves that in the civilisation of to- day the A
general ill— —usage of animals is increasing instead of decreasing.

7. ' That this increase occurs in spite of the contemporary increase Of ,
humane feeling in the average human being, and is due in part to
general ignorance of its existence, and in part to the increasing commer-
cialisation of all means of supply, transport and destruCtion. ' 1

8. That the exploitation of animals is incidental to most and basic
to some of the aspects of modern daily life (See notes below). »

9.; That means of reducing, and in some cases of elimlnatmg Such
exploitation are diSCOVerable, and 1 . .

10. That they must be adopted if the ethical progress of mankind is
1 to continue. . 1 ..