Written by Noah Carl.
I’m not one to use overly emotive language, but the way we produce the vast majority of meat we consume – that is, through factory farming – is utterly barbaric. It involves unspeakable cruelty. Calling it the worst crime in history is no exaggeration. Each year, billions of sentient creatures are brought into existence and then tortured for weeks on end. Many live in a state of extreme and almost constant suffering. Only once they’re put to slaughter does the suffering finally stop.
If you heard about someone treating their dog or cat the way factory-farmed animals are treated, you’d think they were a psychopath. You might assume they were mentally ill. Yet anyone who eats factory-farmed meat is complicit in exactly this kind of treatment of animals. There are no morally relevant differences between the animals we keep as pets and the ones we raise for meat.