Summary Of Animal Liberation By Peter Singer

Animals have been treat as if they are less equal in the moral sense. Over the recent years, the public has been more aware of the animal liberation movement. This movement opposes factory farms and animal experimentation; the movement demands animal equality. The animal liberation movement demands for the people to expand their moral capabilities, to recognize that animals should be treated as equals. However, it is hard for one to recognize that the moral inequality until it is forcibly pointed out to them. Peter Singer, author of “Animal Liberation,” has written about various ethical issues; widely known for his compassion and work on animal welfare. According, to Singer animals should not be held under immoral treatment by humans.

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Humans have always killed for food, they however, did not treat them the way that they are being tried nowadays. In his article Singer mentions, that animals that are slaughtered for food have lived their entire lives in confined sheds, probably never going outside. Animals in factory farming do not suffer for hours or days but their entire lives. Veal calves are kept in stalls that are 5 feet by 2 feet, where they do not even have enough room to turn. Veal calves are slaughtered when they are about four-months-old because they are too big to be contained in the stall. Egg-laying hens are unable to stretch their wings, because they are contained in a cage that is too small and too crowded. Four or five hens are in floor area about 20 inches by 18 inches, the hens only live for a year to eighteen months while the farmers put drugs in the hens food to get the maximum number of eggs from them. Table birds are kept in similar situation, they become very frustrated so they will peck each other to death. To prevent money losses, producers sear off the table birds beaks with a hot knife, cutting through the sensitive nerves. People are supporting factory farming by buying the products that they have “produced.” Factory farming is stripping away the animals from their natural habitat, and using artificial habitats for the benefit of money. Factory farming is not necessary to feed the growing population. No matter how efficient the production of meat, eggs, and chicken becomes it is wasteful because we waste grain to grow those animals. Feeding animals grain actually reduces the total amount of food that is available for consumption. Instead of feeding the animals the grain, humans could actually eat the grain instead of the