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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

Since morally decent individuals oppose treating animals inhumanely for no good reason, factory farming is becoming an increasingly hard sell. According to the HPMAJ column, "Loos told cattle producers the livestock industry must show the public that there are moral and ethical justifications for taking the life of an animal to feed a person.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

This precept is variably stated as follows: Avoid killing or harming any living being. Layer hens spend their entire lives permanently confined in battery cages with 6-9 other hens and have only half a square foot of living space per bird. I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures.