Defending intensive livestock farming in an improper way |
| Factory farming contributes to the economic welfare of a country. |
- Using economic arguments to justify topics
that are ethically unacceptable is immoral.
- If also the harmful (environmental) effects
are included, the economic contribution is zero.
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| Factory farmers
are dependent on this form of farming for their
income. |
| Using economic arguments
to justify topics that are ethically unacceptable
is immoral. No farmer depends for his or her income
on ethically unacceptable work of which the greater
part is exported. |
| Farmers are forced
to cooperate in the factory farming industry to
earn an income. |
| Farmers have a free
will. If they also have a conscience, then they
will choose for a decent farming method. No one
in the western hemisphere needs to be hungry. |
| The law doesn't
say that factory farming is illegal, so it is
allowed. |
| Step by step the
factory farming industry crossed the line of the
morally acceptable. It will take years to counteract
this immoral form of farming in a legal way. |
| If you live in the
countryside, then you will have to take the pollution
of factory farming for granted. |
| In the countryside
no one has the right to take away the freedom
of another being (human or animal). Clean air,
land and water is a right for all and an obligation
for people living in the countryside. |
| The government stimulated
factory farming in the past and banks have given
farmers large credits. |
| That is correct.
It makes the government and the banks responsible
for softening financial blows and for the discontinuation
and downsizing to zero of the factory farming
industry. |
| Factory farmers
have the right to freedom of working method, alongside
the right to freedom. |
| Because factory
farmers abuse the basic right of freedom for animals,
their working method is illegal. |
| Animals in factory
farming are treated well. |
| That animals have
enough to eat and drink does not mean their well-being
is guaranteed, and by no means is it a guarantee
for freedom of behavior. |
| Animals in factory
farming are better off than people living in tiny
apartments in high rises or working on the continuous
line in a factory. |
| People can choose
for how long they want to live and work in these
circumstances, animals cannot. |
| Animals in factory
farming are better off than animals in organic
or biologic-dynamic farms. There the chances for
getting a disease because of being allowed to
walk free on the soil are larger. |
- The fact that only a small amount of animals
can be kept is true also for organic farming.
If this happens in combination with a meadow
that can carry the deposit of fertilizer, the
chances for contracting a disease can be neglected.
- The factory farming industry uses enormous
amounts of antibiotics to prevent diseases.
- Disease is natural in a natural environment.
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| In the bible is
written that Man is lord and master over animals;
that the animals are there for Man to use. |
| If you believe,
you should also notice that nowhere in the bible
it is written that it should be allowed that animals
are kept under these circumstances. |
| In factory farming
the well-being of animals is a priority. |
| For as long as animals
cannot express natural behavior, the well-being
of animals is minimized. |
| Animals in factory
farming are better off than in free nature. |
| )pen the cage and
most animal will walk away to freedom. It obviously
chooses freedom over security of food. |
| Animals in factory
farming industry show little lack of well-being. |
| The right to, and
the need for freedom is not lost by looking neutral
or 'well kept'. |
