I like the fact that an well respected omnivore is stating publicly that factory farming is torture. I dislike the fact that he chooses to not change his behavior because of it, but it's a first step.
These touches the first problem that I have with the article. He doesn't talk about standard CAFO procedures for most animals, like what happens to to cattle in the large outdoor pens. He doesn't provide any context. As far as I can tell, this will do nothing for most animals, meaning it mostly will make people feel better about eating commercial meat because they think the animals are raised humanely because they passed a proposition
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>"animals deserve to be permitted to express their unique animal nature free from pain before we >eat them, both for their sake and for ours." I have pretty much alway expressed this view. (I'm veg because of environmental reasons, not animal rights reasons, though I sympathize with AR.)
>And finally, releasing domesticated animals into the wild is bad for the released animals and bad >for whatever wild animals inhabit the environmental niche they invade. HUH? Who even said that? (Ignore the lunatic fringe, please.)
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I have pretty much alway expressed this view. (I'm veg because of environmental reasons, not animal rights reasons, though I sympathize with AR.)
>And finally, releasing domesticated animals into the wild is bad for the released animals and bad >for whatever wild animals inhabit the environmental niche they invade.
HUH? Who even said that? (Ignore the lunatic fringe, please.)
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