Paul Shapiro, senior director of farm animal protection for The
Humane Society of the United States, expresses in this op-ed why it's
just common sense not to confine farm animals to the point they cannot
even turn around, as is the case with gestation and farrowing crates for
sows. Of course, agribusiness still reasons that pigs under extreme
confinement do well, when many studies and plain common sense show the
opposite. The European Union and 8 states in the US have passed laws to
phase out gestation crates.
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The factory farming business is a rotten one that shamelessly
continues to excuse extreme suffering of animals for the sake of profit.
Why is it that most Christians, who are called to reflect God's love
onto all Creation, still support the meat, egg and dairy industries when
they lack any compassion and mercy toward God's farmed animals? While
many people look at agribusiness at the one to blame for the suffering
of God's farmed animals, it is undeniable that those who support animal
agriculture share responsibility as well.
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