Factory farming causes immense animal suffering from "summary" of Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
The system of factory farming that dominates the meat industry today is responsible for subjecting billions of animals to lives of immense suffering. In these factory farms, animals are treated not as sentient beings capable of feeling pain and pleasure, but as mere commodities to be exploited for profit. The conditions in which these animals are kept are deplorable, with little regard for their well-being or basic needs. Chickens, for example, are raised in cramped and filthy conditions, unable to engage in natural behaviors such as dust bathing or foraging. Their beaks are often cruelly mutilated without anesthesia to prevent them from pecking at each other out of stress and frustration. Pigs are confined to small gestation crates where they are unable to even turn around or lie down comfortably. They are subjected to painful procedures like tail docking and teeth clipping without pain relief. Cows in factory farms are milked to the point of exhaustion, forcibly impregnated repeatedly to keep their milk production up, and separated from their calves shortly after birth. These animals suffer both physically and psychologically f...
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