Thanks for the reply! I was focusing on the most common animals that Americans eat, though I should perhaps have noted that. I disagree that the focus was very much on physical suffering—I talk about sleep deprivation and the sadness of being separated from parents, to give a few examples.
I might be taking it too literally, but given these points, it could be worth renaming this post from a “comprehensive fact sheet of almost all the ways animals are mistreated in factory farms” (I wish such a list could fit in a few thousand words...) to something like a “fact sheet of some of the most salient causes of suffering on factory farms.” Then again, I realize that’s a worse title and has way less rhetorical power… maybe you could come up with something more creative than me!
Thanks for the reply! I was focusing on the most common animals that Americans eat, though I should perhaps have noted that. I disagree that the focus was very much on physical suffering—I talk about sleep deprivation and the sadness of being separated from parents, to give a few examples.
I might be taking it too literally, but given these points, it could be worth renaming this post from a “comprehensive fact sheet of almost all the ways animals are mistreated in factory farms” (I wish such a list could fit in a few thousand words...) to something like a “fact sheet of some of the most salient causes of suffering on factory farms.” Then again, I realize that’s a worse title and has way less rhetorical power… maybe you could come up with something more creative than me!
Thanks for writing this.