Nowadays, most of our food are produced by industrial farms. They use high levels of technology to produce huge amounts of meats annually. However, Utilitarianism proves that eating factory meat is immoral because it is increasing the killing and suffering for the animals.
Utilitarianism is defined as people should always act to produce the greatest number of happiness for the greatest number of people. Everything that cannot lead it to a greater result, then it must be destroyed. In Alastair Norcross’s writing, he defines: “Any theory that could ascribe moral relevance to differences such as these doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously” (298). Based on the quote, we can understand that his writing also applied in utilitarianism, everything
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According to Norcross’s reports: “In 1998, almost 8 billion chickens were slaughtered in the US, almost all of them raised on factory farms” (290). Based on the quote, people can see a huge number of chickens getting killed every day. When one read to this part of the article, they may have a heavy feeling, and a silent moment to think about the meat that they are eating every day. There are not only huge amounts of chickens that are being killed every day. Besides that, pigs, sheep, cows, birds, and more than that are being killed almost every hour around the world. When people have a silent moment to think about this issue, they realize human are very evil, and selfish. Most only consider themselves. They enjoy eating their favorite meat without thinking about how much paint, how much blood they have lost, what kind of torture the animals have to deal with. The industrial company is also evil because they care more about profit than everything else. The consumer is selfish because they only think about a good meal. People should stop eating meat so we can decrease the number of animals getting killed every