Some of the processes that slaughter houses, animal protectionists say, are unnecessary. On the other hand, corporations who own the agricultural industry say that the animals are not being mistreated. Today, many laws are in effect to help minimize the cruelty and abuse of animals in production. In this essay, the examination of one animal protectionists will be evaluated. Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation, emphasizes the importance of animal realization and the notion that humans are not the only ones on this planet deserves life and liberty.

Singer claims that morality requires that we all become vegetarians. The fact that animals suffer for the benefit of humans is exemplified in Singer's work.

" The animal upside down, with ruptured joints and often a broken leg, twists frantically in pain and terror, so that it must be gri

Whether this is right or wrong can not be answered. It is ultimately up to the person in question and the basis of their moral values.

"We buy our meat and poultry in neat plastic packages. It hardly bleeds. There is no reason to associate this package with a living, breathing, walking, suffering animal." (Singer, p 95)

In making these arguments, Singer presents moral considerations that may appeal to each of his arguments. These moral considerations sometimes lead to people who become active in fixing the problem of the mistreatment of animals. One way to aid animals and decrease the mistreatment of animals would be in the market for livestock as food. If people converted to vegetarianism, there would be no need to produce as many livestock to feed people and so the inhumane slaughtering of animals would decrease greatly.

In everyday society, people hide the truth about slaughtering and animal abuse behind words that are less harsh than reality. In Singer's point of view, people seem to find it easier to cope with and to ultimately ignore the facts about what they are really consuming.

Singer has several arguments that he offers for why we should not eat meat. This includes the support to stop inhumane slaughtering of farm animals, the saving of land to use for growing crops to feed impoverished countries instead of rearing farm animals, and the squandering of land ranging in the prairie lands to tropical forests.

Collateral to the previous argument, Singer points out the squandering of land that not only affects American soil but other agricultural countries as well. Meat production puts a strain on many resources such as water, energy, and the soil itself. A researcher from the Worldwatch Institute has calculated that one pound of steak from steers accumulated 2,300 gallons of water, the energy equal to that of a gallon of gasoline, and close to thirty-five pounds of eroded topsoil. (Singer, p 166)

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