Then there are moral issues: We need the “efficiency” of large-scale industrial animal factories to satisfy our current needs, and this production means we’re torturing the billions of animals we produce each year. As you probably know, animals grown in factory farms live in horrific conditions; they’re kept in cages or pens so tiny that they don’t have room to turn around, and they’re drugged, mutilated, and denied the opportunity to fulfill every natural instinct they have. Again,
