The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food

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Hegives beer tohis pet ravenMoses,underfeeds thefarmanimals,and fails to maintaintheirbuildingsand fields. Either way, they don’t contribute to factory farming or the slaughter of animals for human consumption.

Old Major praisestheabundantnaturalresourcesof Englandand anticipates the day whenall of Englandbelongsto the animals instead of the humans. From vegan food tech founders to animal advocates hard at work, the landscape around animal farming is changing. Reese recounts a personal visit to a supposedly humane farm that turned out not to be very humane at all, and notes reasons that “in some ways cage-free sheds are even worse than battery cages,” though they are better overall. Finally, Reese argues that taking animal lives is simply wrong: If a smarter alien race came down to earth, captured human beings and raised them for food, we would object to the killing and eating and not just the � Animal farming “contribute[s] directly and indirectly to deforestation , water pollution , air pollution , greenhouse gases, global warming , desertification , [and] erosion … and virtually anywhere you go in the world, the damage done by ruminants, pigs and poultry, and those who grow feed crops for them, is visible on the land.These cells represent the beginning of a piece of meat that a person might consume after the process concludes. We now know that a pig is not a thing: it is a sentient being with a high level of intelligence, comparable with the intelligence of a child. For example, at one point of The End of Animal Farming , Reese praises an animal welfare advocate in these terms: “In his fifteen years of advocacy work, he has never taken a sick day and has only missed work for one vacation, a few funerals, and to volunteer on election day for various candidates – including his dad”. But before long, it becomes clear that the pigs – especially Napoleon and Snowball – consider themselves special, requiring special treatment, as the leaders of the animals.

He meets with animal agriculture executives and convinces them to adopt higher animal welfare standards. Reese believes that with considerable effort, we can end animal farming altogether within 100 years, and that when we do, our era will come to seem as morally backward as the distant past now seems to us today. It ends by circling back to the expanding moral circle and arguing that advocates should engender a broad moral understanding rather than addressing moral issues one by one.

Then, one day, the animals see Squealer up on his hind legs, walking on two legs like a human instead of on four like an animal. As I’ll explain below, clean meat contains actual meat – but only one single cell from an actual living animal is needed.