Ethics Presentation

1. INDUSTRIAL
FARMING: ONE OF
THE WORST
CRIMES IN
HISTORY
By: Cheyne Horie

2. SOME FACTS
 THE FIRST HUMANS WHO REACHED AUSTRALIA 45,000
YEARS AGO WIPED OUT 90% OF THE ANIMALS THERE
 HUMANS WHO COLONIZED AMERICA 15,000 YEARS AGO
WIPED OUT 75% OF LARGE MAMMALS
 TODAY 90% OF ALL LARGE ANIMALS ARE DOMESTICATED
 THERE ARE 40,000 LIONS ALIVE, BUT BY CONTRAST THERE
ARE 1 BILLION DOMESTICATED PIGS

3. ARGUMENTS FOR
DOMESTICATION
 ANIMALS IN THE WILD OFTEN DIE FROM STARVATION AND
ARE EXPOSED TO PREDATORS, LIONS, PARASITES ETC.
 ANIMALS THAT LIVE IN THE WILD LIVE A HARDER LIFE THAN
THOSE THAT ARE DOMESTICATED
 THE NEED AND DEMAND FOR FOOD OUTWEIGH THE
SUFFERING OF THE ANIMALS

4. THE TRUTH
 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS RECEIVE ALL THE PHYSICAL
NEEDS THEY REQUIRE, BUT LACK THE SOCIAL AND
EMOTIONAL NEEDS THAT THEY ACQUIRED FROM THEIR
ANCESTORS
 THESE ANIMALS ARE LOCKED IN TINY CAGES, MUTILATED,
AND SEPARATED FROM THEIR MOTHERS AND SIBLINGS
 ACCORDING TO DARWINISM, THESE ANIMALS ARE
THRIVING BC THEY ARE CREATING OFFSPRING

5. THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
 HOW DOES THE PHILOSOPHIES OF KANT, ARISTOTLE, ETC
APPLY TO THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR FOOD INDUSTRY?
IS IT JUSTIFIED?
 DOES THE CONTINOUS REPRODUCTION OF FARM ANIMALS
PROVE THAT ALL THEIR REAL NEEDS ARE MET?
 WHERE SHOULD WE DRAW THE LINE BETWEEN
ECONOMICAL AND ETHICAL IN TERMS OF DOMESTICATING
ANIMALS?

6. SOURCE
 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/25/industrial-
farming-one-worst-crimes-history-ethical-question