is factory farming an example of science...devoid of ethics influencing human behaviour?

Question

is science in the service of economics an abomination....

or is the sterile emotionless mathematical way of looking at the world what makes them ideal conspirators in the desecration of the beauty of the earth?

Answer 1

Emotive twaddle. Science is our only valid means of assessing the nature of physical reality. By contrast, emotion is not a valid means of making ANY decisions.

If we were destroying Bachs and Beethovens and great philosophers in a chicken farm, I'd oppose it. But in the words of Bill Cosby, the chicken is the dumbest animal put on the face of this Earth.

If you want to rail against desecration, don't blame the scientists. As the questions get more complex they need more complex instruments and funding and money, so they work for soulless corporations. Early scientists were part of the nobility, or powerful men, but now all scientists "work for someone". Fight the corporations, if you must.

And without science, the microscope, photography, telescopes, detection devices and the television to spread it around, most humans would not even be AWARE of the full extent of the beauty of the Earth.

Thanks to science, fertilizers, and mass production methods, we now produce 50 times as much food as in the pre-mechanized, "organic" farming days. You have the emotional sensitivity to urge a "return" to this, but apparently not enough emotional empathy to be concerned about the 98% of humanity who would have to starve to achieve your ideal. Political Correctness and a concern for animals thus makes you worse than Hitler, and I for one am not going to go to your subsistence-farming work-camp where Organische Agrikultur macht frei.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Last night I saw a show where the host and an old fashioned hand made pizza shop owner went to The Pizza Convention in Las Vegas. They had automatic machines that would produce pizzas, much to the disgust of the hand made pizza guy - there was 'no love put into the pizza' by the machines.
Unfortunately they are starting to get the taste and texture of the machined and frozen pizza products to taste more like the hand made!
Won't it be awful when the machine made pizza and the hand made one taste the same? Did the machine pizza have no ethics? Or are we anthropomorphizing?

Answer 4

I would say factory farming has more to do with industry and not science. What is scientific about mass producing food and animals for consumption? Why would you come down so hard on science when it is the only way of preserving/saving the beauty of the Earth?

Answer 5

Where you draw ethical lines is a matter of personal choice.
Life feeds on life. That's an uncomfortable fact.
As you read this your body is more or less successfully killing things that are trying to eat you.
We, due to superior capability, have basically taken control of the biosphere.
We are the 'apex predator`.
Where we place ethical limits on our feeding is a question to which hunger can limit the answers.
There are really more of us humans on the planet now than it can comfortably support, and our numbers are growing.

Answer 6

Factory farming is the raising of livestock solely for consumption and maximum profit isn't it?

Answer 7

As opposed to millions of people starving? it is a moral dilema and I wouldn't want to be a farmer having to make the choice.

Answer 8

it has alot to do with it