Compassion Factory Slaughter Tagged 
Animal Person
AUGUST 12, 2010
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. The important word in the phrase "family farm" is the same word that is important in "factory 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). Tags: Books Ethics.
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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. Yes, I do think it's better to have lived a comfortable life and then be slaughtered than to have been tortured the entire time and then be slaughtered.
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. What that means is that it wasn't a factory-farm operation. The animals were still bred and raised for slaughter, but evidently in some kind of soulful way we don't really hear about. Kristof frustrates me.
Animal Person
AUGUST 3, 2009
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 factory farm system. He is letting his attachment to eating animals and his attachment to his constituents profiting from their slaughter cloud his decision making.
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