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• Aristotle is the source of Aquinas’ hierarchy of souls in which plants are for animal use and animals are for human use.
• Aristotle himself would have had no ethical problem with eating meat, since he considered that animals existed for the sake of humans.
• Here, perhaps the main virtue we need to consider is that of compassion.

  o Compassion cannot be compartmentalised so that we talk about compassion just for humans: you are either a compassionate person or you are not.

  o If you are, then compassion must apply to all animals, human and non-human.

  o Factory-farming of animals is not even remotely compassionate.
• The conditions of factory farming do not allow for good habits to develop