Cruelty Inhumane Raised Research 
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.
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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