Factory Farm, Morals, Neglecting and Rights

Steven M. Wise on Farm Animals

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. Their ethological needs and direct interests are neglected to the extent that their needs are not as congruent with higher productivity and profit. Though factory-farming and biotechnological techniques massively violate the moral rights of farm animals, they have no remedy.

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R. G. Frey on the Principle of the Equal Consideration of Interests

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is a moral principle, and states that 'the interests of every being affected by an action are to be taken into account and given the same weight as the like interests of any other being'. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.

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Steven M. Wise on Farm Animals

R. G. Frey on the Principle of the Equal Consideration of Interests

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