Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. The dark secret behind factory farm profits—cruel and inhumane animal husbandry—is getting out.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. Premise (4) is widely acknowledged.

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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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