Nicole Vecchio
POSC 199-02
26 October, 2014
Animal Rights and Factory Farming in California
There are social norms prevalent in modern society that frequently go unquestioned because they are either so fundamentally logical that they just make sense, or because people choose to ignore them, as it is an easier solution than trying to fix them. For example, running all of your daily errands in the nude is, unquestioningly, taboo. Unfortunately, the flawed, unsanitary, and violent practice of factory farming is one of the latter, which has made itself prominent due to a general lack of opposition. Phasing out factory farming in California will improve the quality of meat products available, protect the environment, provide more jobs for farmers,…