{"id":779712,"date":"2025-11-06T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=779712"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:01:45","slug":"it-would-be-immoral-to-run-a-factory-farm-so-its-immoral-to-buy-from-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=779712","title":{"rendered":"VEGAN LOGIC: It would be immoral to run a factory farm, so it’s immoral to buy from one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If it\u2019s wrong to do something, then it\u2019s wrong to pay other people to do it. Because it\u2019s wrong to kill, it\u2019s wrong to hire someone else to kill. Because it\u2019s wrong to rob a bank, it\u2019s wrong to hire someone else to rob a bank. So if it\u2019s wrong to treat animals badly, it\u2019s wrong to pay others to treat animals badly. But that is what you do every time you purchase meat from a typical source. You pay for the product of months of torment and mutilation in a factory farm.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Imagine that you found out that your friend raised his own chickens. One day, he invited you into his house and you saw how he treated them. Dozens of chickens were chained up in a cage too small to move, inhaling the feces of those above them. Those chickens, you learned, had been debeaked, meaning their beak had been sliced off with a hot knife, without anesthetic. This probably felt like having their nose cut off.<\/em><\/p>\n

When his egg-laying hens produced a baby male chick, he would drop it into a shredder because it was useless. He\u2019d force the pigs to give birth in a little concrete cell too small to turn around in, and would kill them by forcing them into a gas chamber. Over decades, he\u2019d genetically engineered the chickens to be so large that they could barely move, and the full weight of their bloated bodies was thus constantly pressed against the metal of the cage. And sometimes, to produce more chickens, he\u2019d hold the female chickens down and inject them with semen from male chickens.<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems like he is doing something evil! He should stop. Probably you would not return to his house of horrors. More likely, you\u2019d call the police. But here\u2019s a plausible principle: if it\u2019s wrong to do something, then it\u2019s wrong to pay other people to do it. Because it\u2019s wrong to kill, it\u2019s wrong to hire someone else to kill. Because it\u2019s wrong to rob a bank, it\u2019s wrong to hire someone else to rob a bank. So if it\u2019s wrong to treat animals badly, it\u2019s wrong to pay others to treat animals badly.<\/em><\/p>\n

But that is what you do every time you purchase meat from a typical source. You pay for the product of months of torment and mutilation… Factory farms treat the animals on them every bit as badly as your friend in the above hypothetical. Every one of the practices I described is routine on the factory farms that house more than 99% of animals killed each year. So if it\u2019s immoral to mistreat animals, then it\u2019s also immoral to pay for others to mistreat animals. This would mean nearly all meat consumption is seriously immoral. <\/em>BENTHAM’S BULLDOG<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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