PHILOS 5 Lecture Notes - Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation
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Some examples of how society restricts personal liberties: fines and citations, discourages you to do it again, getting the threat of a fine and citation to follow rules > limits the choices you make, taxes to raise prices, makes it harder for people to buy things, makes the choice harder, limitation of liberty, adding regulations and inspecting for compliance. One perspective: pro regulation: harm principle says that government/ society can be justified in restricting personal liberties, like the freedom to raise animals for profit, if that restriction prevents others from being harmed, animals, one might claim, are certainly harmed in cafos, since they are forcibly exposed to disease and terrible living conditions, epa and usda primary agencies who regulate cafos by enforcing minimum companies with health and safety standards > costly, standards restrict personal liberties by animal treatment and money spent, epa/ usda"s regulations help to fix harms, then those agencies are permitted to restrict liberties of cafos owners.
