To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.
The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.
When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.