Is dealing with animals ethically acceptable?

Principle(s)

Deciding whether something is or is not ethical sound partly depends on personal assessment. Basing your opinion on a principle, as we do, makes it much easier to decide. Our principle is that freedom is most important for both humans and animals. The various ways of keeping (housing) animals, and the way people choose their food are brought together in the ethical scale depicted alongside. Here too one's own conscience plays an important role. It's still your own responsibility whether or not to eat meat or dairy products. When these are products from factory farming, they are not ethically acceptable.

Ethical barometer

Ethical scale	Chickens	Pigs	Fish
Ethically unsound	Laying battery	Tied sow
			Salmon breeding
	Table type chick farm
	Pleasure hunting		Fishing (angling)
Personal judgment	Hunting for the control of wildlife		Offshore fishing
	Aviary
	Free-range farm		Aquarium
Biological
Ecological
Bio-dynamic
Ethically sound	Vegetarianism
	Veganism