“Humanely Raised” is not “Free of Exploitation”
Stephanie Ernst, a freelance editor and writer, and independent
animal rights advocate, believes the animal rights movement might be
lost in the factory farming turmoil and therefore losing sight of
its essence, which is to bring animal exploitation to an end. Ernst
sites the trendy movement of opposing factory farming by supporting
"humane" animal agriculture such as "free-range", "grass-fed" or
"cage-free". When vegetarians go back to eating animals with not
ethical objection and actually feel good about it, Ernst truly
believes we have a problem that needs to be tackled soon before this
trend distorts the fundamentals of the animal rights movement.
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Stop the Fight Against Factory Farming, Save
the Animal Rights Movement
While animals raised in small family farms tend to have
better/less abused lives than factory farmed animals we should try
to remember that all animals being farmed are sentient beings and
God’s creatures. Also, the fact that most of us don’t need to eat
flesh in order to survive meat-eating poses serious ethical problems.