Animal Person
AUGUST 12, 2010
Irv Bell's farm is a family farm. It's also a factory farm. 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."
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
as I was running this morning, I couldn't help wonder what the difference is between his book and The Compassionate Carnivore and the myriad others written by people who despise factory farming, yet claim to love animals (and of course love their "meat," and find a way to get it while not feeling bad about it).
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Animal Person
AUGUST 23, 2009
His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. The result is that on one level he knows that hurting sentient nonhumans isn't right, but if it's done in a certain respectful way (oxymoron, anyone?) What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation.
Animal Person
JUNE 22, 2009
There's no "compassion" in the process. No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. It's just not right. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. No argument here. A treacherous giving up to an enemy.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 2, 2008
And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms 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 factory farms. I look forward to casting my vote for compassion. Government animal rights regulations may help.
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