Journal
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 455-468Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-009-9226-x
Keywords
Factory farming; Humane farming; In-vitro meat production; Rights theory; Utilitarianism; Vegetarianism
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Scientists have shown that the practice of factory farming is an increasingly urgent danger to human health, the environment, and nonhuman animal welfare. For all these reasons, moral agents must consider alternatives. Vegetarian food production, humane food animal farming, and in-vitro meat production are all explored from a variety of ethical perspectives, especially utilitarian and rights-based viewpoints, all in the light of current U.S. and European initiatives in the public and private sectors. It is concluded that vegetarianism and potentially in-vitro meat production are the best-justified options.
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