Experience Factory Farming Farming 
Animal Person
JUNE 13, 2009
You get the idea at YouTube but the experience is vastly different on a great television. On the animal front, there is definitely a message that factory farming is unsustainable, and that subsistence farming is and was preferable; there is a vague if-we-did-it-differently-it-might-be-sustainable message. But that's me.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
The discussion about the environment usually originates in the massive problems created by the factory farming of sentient nonhumans. The arguments against factory farming, which most recently were articulated by Jonathan Safran Foer (who has caused quite a stir in the mainstream), are legion.
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Critter News
APRIL 26, 2009
That's why people say that they have no problem eating them, harvesting them, experimenting on them, etc. Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. Humans get all wrapped up in stories of those who can communicate their sufferings.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 25, 2010
At our farm sanctuary, we see how much chickens rescued from factory farms delight in these experiences. 15, 2010 The writers are co-founders of Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary. Most will never know sunlight, breezes, plants or soil. Like humans, animals have a right to enjoy life. Bill Crain Ellen Crain Poughquag, N.Y.,
Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2012
can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 31, 2008
My view, then, is not that which it has often been taken to be in discussion and which Singer, Regan, Clark, and others blast in their work; I am not suggesting that, because they lack language, animals can be factory farmed without suffering. Animals can suffer, which they could not unless they were conscious; so they are conscious.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 18, 2006
Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. I have always felt a sense of connection to animals since as far back as I can remember, and the current manner in which they are treated in factory farms disturbs me.
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