ABSTRACT
The title ‘Ideals and realities’ was conceived by Compassion in World Farming Trust (CIWF Trust), who organized the conference out of which this book arose, but it is one that I recognize. In my two Animal Welfare books (Webster, 1994, 2005), Eden defines the ideal state wherein humans and the other animals can live in perfect harmony. This is an impossible goal: but one to which we should look with a cool eye and one to which we can direct our progress, however halting this may be.
