2024 Volume 96 Issue 1 Pages 61-66
This study shows how interests in moral reform and social control were linked to the development of livestock protection regulations in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the late 18th century, events such as the American and French Revolutions had heightened the social need to strengthen moral reform. The protection of livestock was seen as one such means, and livestock protection regulation was extended as moral reform spread. This suggests the logic of the development of modern animal welfare policy in Europe.