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the globe. These processes have resulted in horrendous conditions for those
species raised as ‘meat’, environmental degradation, food poverty in poorer
counties, and reproduced and enhanced embedded inequities between
human beings. In Britain, as elsewhere, legislative moves to limit violent
practices against animals deal with the extreme instances of ‘cruelty’ in
individual or corporate cases, rather than the regularised legitimated violent
practices embedded in everyday human interactions with non-human animals. Whilst the articulation of claims for rights and welfare improvements
may have been effectual in the last 70 years in ameliorating some of the
extremes of violent behaviour, it cannot challenge the social domination of
non-human species. Indeed, the articulation of political claims on behalf ‘of’
animals has proceeded alongside the global spread of Western intensive
animal agriculture and an enormous increase in animal populations bred
and grown for food.

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