In the 2010s, animal welfare organizations successfully pressured McDonald's, Subway, and Walmart to adopt "cage-free" or "crate-free" policies. For a welfare advocate, this represented a massive reduction in suffering for millions of hens and pigs.

: Article 51A(g) establishes the fundamental duty of citizens to have compassion for living creatures, while Article 21 (Right to Life) has been expanded by the Supreme Court to include the right of animals to live with dignity.

He was dying of silence.

Animal welfare is primarily a scientific and practical concept concerned with an animal's physical and mental state in relation to its environment.

: Conditions and treatment that avoid mental suffering.