Factory Farming and Animal Liberation: The New Zealand Experience

This book is about the rights of animals, specifically those farmed for the table. But it is also about human rights; namely our rights in a democracy to have our voices listened to and acted on by our democratically elected leaders.

The book starts with an introduction to animal welfare in New Zealand and other countries. It summarises the science around animal welfare and the difficult question about how we can know what an animal is feeling. The next chapter touches on questions of value;...