PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Intensive Animal Farming, Taste, Veal
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Phla11 lecture 20 treatment of animals. In fred"s basement the police find twenty-six small wire cages, each containing a puppy, some whining, some whimpering, some howling many of them show signs of mutilation. Urine and feces cover the bottoms of the cages and the basement floor. Except for the mutilations, the puppies are never allowed out of the cages, which are barely big enough to hold them. (norcross, p. 229) Fred"s desire for chocolate doesn"t justify the severe suffering he is imposing on puppies. Eating factory-farmed meat is wrong for the same reason that fred"s behavior is wrong. Over 95% of the animals raised for food in canada are produced in factory- farms. No decent person would even contemplate torturing puppies merely to enhance a gustatory experience. However, billions of animals endure intense suffering every year for precisely this end.
