Meat is essential to our current way of life and is the main source of nutrition in our diet. The industrial agricultural system produces the vast majority of all the food in the world. The human population is believed to reach 10 million by 2050, industrial agriculture is necessary to produce enough food for the ever booming population. Without many of the techniques utilized industrial agriculture would have a difficult time keeping up with productivity and supplying the human species with the food it needs to survive. While the practice of beak clipping is disgusting and immoral according to utilitarianism. It however is necessary to keep productivity at the levels needed to supply society’s demand for its meat intensive diet. However Peter singer is correct that animals deserve rights because they share common interests with humans although boycotting factory farming meat certainly won’t sustain society’s desire for a meat intensive
Meat is essential to our current way of life and is the main source of nutrition in our diet. The industrial agricultural system produces the vast majority of all the food in the world. The human population is believed to reach 10 million by 2050, industrial agriculture is necessary to produce enough food for the ever booming population. Without many of the techniques utilized industrial agriculture would have a difficult time keeping up with productivity and supplying the human species with the food it needs to survive. While the practice of beak clipping is disgusting and immoral according to utilitarianism. It however is necessary to keep productivity at the levels needed to supply society’s demand for its meat intensive diet. However Peter singer is correct that animals deserve rights because they share common interests with humans although boycotting factory farming meat certainly won’t sustain society’s desire for a meat intensive