Situation ethics

• Humanitarian may excuse intensive farming by saying it prevents malnutrition, corporations may want it for profit
• Motives of intensive farming:

  • consumerism
  • economics
  • stop starvation/ greed
• Consequences of intensive farming:

  • depends on perspective
• Without eating animals, humans may have died out- our digestion and teeth are made to eat meat
• Two main points of view:

  • intensive farming is exploitative and cruel
  • contributes to population increase

  Mutually reinforcing factors
• 795 million have insufficient food- most loving thing is to increase farming
• Meat industry contributes to human starvation as cattle eat 15X the amount they produce: more loving to abandon intensive farming