The equality of bodies

animal exploitation and human welfare

José Parry

Noël Parry

pp. 160-179

in: Kathryn Ellis, Hartley Dean, Jo Campling (eds), Social policy and the body, Berlin, Springer, 2000

Abstract

Starting in the eighteenth century, the humanitarian movement had as its objectives the reduction of suffering, the abolition of cruelty and the institutionalization of compassion through legislation. "Organized moral indignation" became the principal driving force of the movement and its method was the mobilization of public opinion (Kitson Clark, 1962: 38).