Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
Kristof wants animals to be raised for human consumption in the kind and generous manner of his boyhood farm, a way that certainly seems nicer to the animals than mean ol’ modern industrial-style farming. We know that animals suffer as well. I grew up on a dairy and hog farm in central Massachusetts.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 23, 2006
But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.
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