Q&@
WHEREAS THEISM
JUSTIFIED TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE
IN THE NAME OF GOD, HUMANISM HAS JUSTIFIED
MODERN INDUSTRIAL FARMING IN THE NAME OF MAN!
Industrial Farming sanctifies Human Needs, Whims & Wishes,
while disregarding everything else. Industrial Farming has no real interest in animals,
which don't share the sanctity of Human Nature? Ànd it has no use for gods, because modern science
and technology give humans powers that far exceed those of ancient gods! Science enables modern firms
to subjugate cows, pigs & chickens to more extreme conditions than those prevailing in traditional agricultural
societies... In Ancient AeGYPT, in the Roman Empire or in Medieval China, humans only had a rudimental
understanding of biochemistry, genetics, zoology & epidemiology?! So consequently, their powers of
manipulation were limited!? In those days, pigs, cows & chickens ran free among the houses, ànd
searched for edible treasures in the rubbish heap & in the nearby woods.........
If an ambitious peasant had tried to confine thousands of animals in a crowded coop, a deadly epidemic would
probably have resulted, wiping out all the animals as well as many of the villagers. No priest, shaman or god
could have prevented it. But once modern science deciphered the secrets of epidemics, pathogens & antibiotics,
industrial coops, pens & pigties became more feasible?! With the help of vaccinations, medications, hormones,
pesticides, central air-conditioning systems & automatic feeders, it is now possible to pack tens of thousands of pigs,
cows & chickens into neat rows of cramped cages, and produce meat, milk & eggs with unprecedented efficiency:
in recent years, as people began to rethink human-animal relations, such practices
have come under increasing criticism.