The bedrock of modern animal welfare is the "Five Freedoms," established in 1965 in response to a British government report on farm animal husbandry:
A approach says: "You cannot own a sentient being. You cannot kill a healthy individual who wants to live just because you like the taste of bacon. Veganism is the moral baseline." The bedrock of modern animal welfare is the
Sentient animals possess fundamental rights (e.g., the right not to be owned, the right to life, the right to liberty) that cannot be overridden by human benefit. the right not to be owned