The Animal Welfare Act, achieved in 1966, supports most common house pets but does not include farm animals. Nicholas Kristof recently wrote about how chickens are often raised to have breasts so large that their legs can’t hold up their body weight. And other Times writers have written about abuse of many other common farm animals. This is not fair to these animals. I believe we should provide farm animals with more equal rights. Farmed animals raised for the meat, dairy, and egg companies are among the most abused in the United States. Many people have revealed abuse on farms and in slaughterhouses so terrible, most people cannot even bear to watch.1 Despite their vast numbers, and severity of abuse they suffer, farmed animals receive only
