1. Ethics in the Food Industry
... . Webster regards the industrial chicken production as, "in magnitude and severity, the most severe systematic example of man's inhumanity to another sentient animal" (Singer 24). This doesn't even begin to describe the brutality of the chicken production. The egg-hatching chickens are kept throughout their lives in extremely confined spaces (an area of an 8" by 11" piece ... ; (Pollan 9). This is just a little worse than what the chickens we eat experience – living in a cramped shed where the existence of sunlight is not known, walking over a year's worth of their feces. Actually, not ...
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