Biro: Chicken Run- The Prison-Like Lives of Livestock
Chicken Run The Prison-Like Lives of Livestock By Sami Biro Introduction: Do dogs deserve the rights humans receive? Do fish or chickens? We humans seem to see our rights as the most valuable ones, and anything that is not human does not get the same rights. If I'm honest, not even all people receive the same rights. Livestock and other farmed animals are treated horrendously in the food industry. From mutilation to force feeding animals until they die from overeating, the atrocities committed in the food industry are overlooked by lay people. If we were to see humans treated in the same way, there would be a great deal more uproar. When it comes to the rights of farm animals, there are two main schools of thought surrounding the discussion- the rights view and utilitarianism. The rights view is often called an "abolitionist" view since it aims to stop all slaughtering of animals for food. They argue that animals have rights, and that it is inherently wrong t...
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