Although almost everyone on the planet seems to consume meat, justifying meat consumption is a difficult thing to do when looking at how terribly animals are treated on factory farms. The New York Times article, “Exposing Abuse on the Factory Farm”, written by the Editorial Board, gives readers insight into this issue. Unfortunately, a lot of people are completely unaware of what a chicken, cow, or pig they are eating went through. Obviously these animals are killed, but also experience severe suffering before this happens. Whether this is morally right or wrong isn’t even a question in many people’s minds. Why should a living creature endure suffering so that humans can eat them? Animals can surely feel things and experience certain…show more content… 1). The fact that the operators feel the need to hide what is going on is highly concerning in itself. The article discusses one scene someone filmed on their phone at a farm where a live cow, with a chain attached to her neck, was being dragged by a tractor while being kicked and also beat by workers at the farm. Fortunately, there are some regulations in place, which the article discusses, to help with the ethical treatment of animals. Unfortunately, these don’t always seem to help. After several clips, including the one of the cow being dragged, were released, “a federal judge struck down Idaho’s ag-gag law for violating the First Amendment.” (Bennet et al. 1). This law Idaho had was in place to basically prevent people from coming in and investigating their farming operations and conditions. This essentially means that with the ag-gag law in place, farmers could do whatever they wanted to their animals and people wouldn’t know what was going on since they wouldn’t be allowed to investigate at the farm. A farmer could keep animals in painfully small living conditions where they are standing in their own filth and keep them chained up constantly so they are unable to move. With this law, a farmer could seriously cause harm to by beating or torturing an animal and nobody would
