ANIMAL CRUELTY IN MEAT INDUSTRY

MAIN ARGUMENT

• More regulations
• Better treatment of animals
• an estimated 9 billion broiler chickens, 113 million pigs, 33 million cows and 250 million turkeys are raised for our consumption in dark, filthy, pestilent barns

COUNTER-ARGUMENT #1

• Animals don't have emotions, can't feel fear
• When the air puff was directed at the hens, they reacted with signs of fear, becoming more alert and preening less, and their eye temperature decreased

COUNTER-ARGUMENT #2

• Their feelings don't matter, food is food
• Conditions are bad and farmers use antibiotics
• Existential

TEMPLE GRANDIN

• Keeping pens clean and cattle clean
• money spent to slope the land correctly for drainage - not possible if puddles of water standing around.
• Cows may go lame

Treat animals better, it will benefit not just them but all of humanity

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-a...
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201103/empathic-chicke...
• http://grist.org/food/temple-grandin-digs-in-on-the-practical-side-of-what-...