and reform laws to improve animal rights and human-animal relationships.

In The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society, Edwards et al. write, "unsurprisingly, no consensus is required to acknowledge that if a being can suffer, then it is wrong to make her suffer, regardless of the species." In the words of Jeremy Bentham, what matters is not a being's cognitive abilities or capacities, but whether they can feel and therefore experience suffering. The scientific consensus that nonhuman