Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-22-2020
Publication Title
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
First page number:
46
Last page number:
54
Abstract
In the United States (U.S.) alone, nearly 10 billion farmed animals are raised and killed for food each year, and approximately 99% of these animals are raised in factory farms, where they are mutilated without anesthetic, confined to cramped and overcrowded cages and sheds, forcibly separated at birth from their mothers, deprived of the opportunity to move freely and engage in species-specific behavior, and killed violently (Sentience Institute 2019). Given the terrible harms that billions of animals endure on U.S. factory farms each year, we must ask: why do so many people repeatedly partake in and support such a morally atrocious practice?
Keywords
Factory farming; Meat eating; Morality
Disciplines
Epistemology
File Format
File Size
231 KB
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Repository Citation
Abbate, C.
(2020).
Nonculpably Ignorant Meat Eaters & Epistemically Unjust Meat Producers.
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
46-54.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/philosophy_fac_articles/99