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4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factoryfarms by an overwhelming margin. All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food.” From the campaign website : (Nov. As of 11 PM PST, Prop 2 was leading 62% to 38%.
Irv Bell's farm is a family farm. It's also a factoryfarm. The marketing of an operation of breeding and slaughtering sentient nonhumans as a family farm (here, Bell straddles the line) is supposed to trigger some kind of compassion for the humans. And all of those are implicit in "farm."
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic catechism affirm that compassion for animals is a matter of human dignity. The Episcopal Church embraces a resolution that specifically addresses puppy mills and factoryfarms. The Catholic Church is not alone among major religions on this issue.
His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. I suppose speciesism/human exceptionalism is at the heart of the matter. He just doesn't believe that other beings lives might have a purpose all their own that is entirely unrelated to humans.
Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. There's no "compassion" in the process. No factoryfarms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. It's cruel. No argument here.
And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factoryfarms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factoryfarms. Mr. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice.
He thinks that the treatment of animals in factoryfarms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factoryfarming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.
The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factoryfarm system. We give them human names and provide them with the same amenities we enjoy as humans.
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