ABSTRACT
In this section, the basic features of the current theoretical approaches to animal welfare are explained. It is also this chapter which clarifies why the flaws of current theoretical arguments lead to the necessity of a Marxist Theory of Animal Welfare. Therefore, the Utility-Based Approach developed by Singer (I); Right-Based Approach developed by Regan (II); Virtue-Based Approach developed by Hursthouse (III); Intuition-Based Approach developed by DeGrazia (IV); and Citizenship-Based Approach developed by Donaldson and Kymlicka (V) are discussed in this chapter in order to analyse the relationship between capitalism and today's animal issue. In doing so, the section comes to conclusion that even though each approach has an important function in solving animal poverty, they fail to overcome the paradoxes stemmed from both capitalism and cartesian duality.
