Factory Farmed Animals Research Paper

The question of morality is consistently paired with the consumption of animals and animal byproducts. Those who favor consumption defend their belief with testimony of ignorance, claims of non-involvement, and tradition. Opponents of this consumption defend their belief by citing instances where human consumption of animals and their byproducts have adversely affected the environment and permitted the mistreatment of factory farmed animals.
If it is wrong to torture animals for gustatory pleasure, then it is immoral to eat animals. It is wrong to torture animals for gustatory please. Therefore, it can be held that it is immoral to eat animals. One of the largest issues large factory farms face is the amount of waste (excrement) that accrues before the animals are slaughtered and transported all over the world—namely swine. This overwhelming amount of feces must go somewhere and is commonly put into ponds strictly for the excrement— “waste lagoons”. To the average person this plan seems efficient enough and environmentally sustainable. However, suppose that a factory farm that uses a waste lagoon system is near the eastern coast of the United States; if a hurricane were to land near the lagoon, the tremendous amounts of rain that proceeds and antecedes a hurricane would easily cause a lagoon to overflow and deposit excrement riddled with harmful bacteria. As the liquid from the waste lagoons traveled it is highly likely to contaminate other water ways and further pollute and damage nearby ecosystems. A popular practice to disperse and dispose of the liquid in waste lagoons is to fertilize fields (Peach). This too sounds like a …show more content…
It is wrong to torture animals for gustatory pleasure and now one can see why it is immoral to eat animals as well as animal