acti-veg:

If the goal of the animal welfare movement is to make the lives of animals better, then they have failed miserably at this task. We have had a hundred years of so called “welfare reforms” and things are worse for animals now than they have ever been. Animal abusing enterprises are pressured by welfare groups, make tiny changes that are usually for economic and efficiency reasons rather than out of concern, and then are celebrated and endorsed by these welfarist organisations.

This means they can sell the flesh and secretions of slaughtered beings to guilt-free consumers with a stamp of approval from an organisation supposedly devoted to protecting these very same animals, increasing demand from otherwise conscious consumers and thus leading to even more animal deaths. This fact only ceases to be surprising when you realise that the goal of animal welfarism has never been to protect animals, but to make their exploitation more palatable to the public.