AP’s Pro-Animal Rights Bias Is Revealed in Stylebook Change

Animal rights and animal welfare are two different concepts. The former is an ideology that creates an explicit moral equivalence or equality between animals and humans. In this view, what is done to an animal must be judged in the same manner as if done to a human being, or one is a "speciesist." Hence, cattle ranching is an equivalent evil to slavery.

Animal welfare, on the other hand, deals with setting humane treatment standards and preventing abuse. Animal welfare is a duty imposed by...