we can also say that one thing is the theory of animal rights (ideological and a little unrealistic) and quite another the animal rights movement, more pragmatic and realistic. The “new welfarism” assumes that animal welfare reforms do work, that there is an increasing number of regulations about ethical treatment to animals, and that animal rights (the radical part) is incapable of making a short-term program. They just have the long one of abolishing animal exploiting and freeing them of their property status. In terms of their tactics, since both groups perceive that the issue of animal rights/animal welfare is, even as a whole, somehow unknown for most people, they prefer to make just one common front for the defense of animals. They appreciate the combination of both ideologies to make the defense strong, not to one another, but in front of the general public; in front of people who never thought that animals should also have their own interests/rights recognized.