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The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farmanimals from the abuses inherent in factoryfarms. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farmanimals, see here.
As the world moves toward raising the majority of animals in the unnatural setting of factoryfarms, it is likely that more, and worse, such pathogens will arise. What will it take for us, and our public health leaders, to question our addiction to meat and tolerance of factoryfarming?
Most people are shocked and appalled when they first read descriptions of factoryfarming and learn about the horribly inhumane conditions in which the billions of animals destined for dinner tables are raised, and they are even more appalled when they first see documentary footage of the institutional cruelties inherent in factoryfarming.
Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factoryfarming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer.
Not all meat eaters are cold, cruel, selfish individuals insensitive to animal suffering. Many, if not most, of the meat eaters I know are deeply concerned about the fact that the animals they eat are raised in factoryfarm conditions. They realize that factoryfarming is inhumane.
His call for the end of factoryfarms (concentrated animal feeding operations) is courageous. Meat production may be cruel or inhumane, but it is not, literally, torturous. Better food creates better health. And yet our government is perversely encouraging food habits that negatively affect our health and our environment.
Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factoryfarms saved an estimated $3.9 I have visited many of the grotesque factoryfarms that now corrupt our rural landscapes.
There is also little dispute concerning the following premise: (4) The animals that become that meat are reared in ways that subject them to intense pain and suffering for much of their lives. It is not in dispute that, in modern factoryfarms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.
The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factoryfarms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.
This includes refusing to support business firms that cause, or profit from, animal suffering. As he puts it, “Until we boycott meat we are, each one of us, contributing to the continued existence, prosperity, and growth of factoryfarming and all the other cruel practices used in rearing animals for food” ( Animal Liberation, 167).
Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the AnimalEthics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.
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