Critics, particularly rights advocates, argue that welfare creates a "humane myth." They posit that welfare standards often serve to ease human guilt rather than alleviate animal suffering. For example, a "cage-free" hen may still live in a crowded barn with thousands of other birds, engaging in unnatural aggression due to stress. Welfare, critics argue, merely tinkers with the machinery of exploitation without dismantling it.
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In his seminal book Animal Liberation , Singer applied the principle of utilitarianism to animals. He coined the term speciesism —discrimination against individuals purely based on their species. Singer argued that equal consideration should be given to the interests of all sentient beings capable of experiencing pleasure and pain.