What is your opinion of "factory farming"?

With news that philosophers have recently raised thousands of dollars to end factory farming--this at a time when right-wing authoritarian movements are on the rise throughout the Western democracies and, even closer to home, the Republicans have just enacted a massive tax fraud as a preliminary to an assault on the social welfare state--I wondered what the range of views about factory farming really is out there.  (Among academic philosophers, an admittedly weird sub-group, this has become a topic on which the "thought control" police are particularly aggressive, so perhaps a poll might be illuminating.)

 

What is your opinion of so-called "factory farming"?

It is a moral abomination, an animal "Holocaust"

 

It is morally wrong

 

It is morally neutral

 

It is a morally justifiable way of providing low-cost food products to people

 

It is morally commendable by bringing into existence animals who otherwise would not have existed

 

 

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