> In the U.S., according to its National Pork Producers Council, 80 million of its 95 million pigs slaughtered each year are reared in industrial settings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_animal_farming#Con...
> pigs are placed in a crate made of iron bars that is the exact length and width of their bodies, so they can do nothing for their entire lives but stand on a concrete floor, never turn around, never see any outdoors, never even see their tails, never move more than an inch.
Much more disturbing text and images can be found at the source: https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...
And that’s only for pigs. Conditions are no better for chickens or cows at factory farms.
Truth is, a lot of people - inside and outside - just don't care. Ceteris paribus, they'd prefer animals to have happy lives, but that preference is outweighed by needs of convenience, profit, human healthcare, and food security.
Psychopaths are rare. But, with apologies to Burke/Mill[0], the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is to separate good men from it by enough layers of abstraction.
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[0] - Apparently [1], the Burke never said that, and the original sounds closer to "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing", which is incidentally even closer to my paraphrase.
[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-top-10-misattribute...
Right. And instead they throw their weight behind ag-gag laws, which criminalize whistleblowing on factory farms.
I think that way more people outside than inside do care, it’s just that you have to go seeking this information yourself to find out much, and it’s highly disturbing stuff. So without loud voices pushing people to confront the issue,it’s easy to remain willfully ignorant.