In Alastair Norcross’s “Puppies, Pigs and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Case,” Norcross argues that factory farmed meat is morally wrong. Alastair supports his conclusion with two premises. The first premise is that it is wrong to torture puppies for gustatory pleasure. The second premise is if it is wrong to torment puppies for gustatory pleasure, then it is also wrong to purchase and consume factory farmed meat.
For example, Norcross argues about Fred, who was involved in an accident that damaged a section of his brain that caused him to lose his savor for chocolate. Since Fred cannot taste chocolate, he wanted to find a way to induce the flavor of chocolate again. He found out from his doctor that it was impossible for a human to share a Godiva gland with another. However, a forensic veterinary surgeon discovered that puppies can stimulate cocoamone when they are stressed. Therefore, he started to torture puppies by slicing off their …show more content…
“No decent person would even contemplate torturing puppies merely to enhance a gustatory experience” (Norcross 2). However, to eat chicken, beef, pork, etc. the animals experience more harsh and intense suffering in facilities for us to eat their meat. The difference between us eating these meats and Fred’s actions is that we are paying others to do the job. It is argued that should we not also partially receive consequences too for eating these tortured animals. Humans are unaware of the suffering of the animals we consume meat from. For example, majority of the chickens in factory farms have their beaks cut by clipping or burning them off. The factory farms perform this to chickens to avoid chickens pecking each other to death. When we purchase factory farmed pork, beef, or chicken, we are contributing to a factory farming system that harms pigs, cows, or chickens for our gustatory pleasure which is also
For example, Norcross argues about Fred, who was involved in an accident that damaged a section of his brain that caused him to lose his savor for chocolate. Since Fred cannot taste chocolate, he wanted to find a way to induce the flavor of chocolate again. He found out from his doctor that it was impossible for a human to share a Godiva gland with another. However, a forensic veterinary surgeon discovered that puppies can stimulate cocoamone when they are stressed. Therefore, he started to torture puppies by slicing off their …show more content…
“No decent person would even contemplate torturing puppies merely to enhance a gustatory experience” (Norcross 2). However, to eat chicken, beef, pork, etc. the animals experience more harsh and intense suffering in facilities for us to eat their meat. The difference between us eating these meats and Fred’s actions is that we are paying others to do the job. It is argued that should we not also partially receive consequences too for eating these tortured animals. Humans are unaware of the suffering of the animals we consume meat from. For example, majority of the chickens in factory farms have their beaks cut by clipping or burning them off. The factory farms perform this to chickens to avoid chickens pecking each other to death. When we purchase factory farmed pork, beef, or chicken, we are contributing to a factory farming system that harms pigs, cows, or chickens for our gustatory pleasure which is also