PlumX Metrics
SSRN
Embed PlumX Metrics

What's Wrong with Factory Farming?

Public Health Ethics, 2015
2014
  • 0
    Citations
  • 12,000
    Usage
  • 3
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
Metric Options:   Counts1 Year3 Year

Metrics Details

  • Usage
    12,000
    • Abstract Views
      10,341
    • Downloads
      1,659
  • Captures
    3
    • Readers
      3
      • SSRN
        3
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      21,857

Paper Description

Factory farming continues to grow around the world as a low-cost way of producing animal products for human consumption. But many of the practices associated with intensive animal farming have been criticized by public health professionals and animal welfare advocates. The aim of this essay is to raise three independent moral concerns with factory farming, and to explain why the practices associated with factory farming flourish despite the cruelty inflicted on animals and the public health risks imposed on people. I conclude that the costs of factory farming as it is currently practiced far outweigh the benefits, and offer a few suggestions for how to improve the situation for animals and people.

Bibliographic Details

Jonathan Anomaly

factory farming; antibiotic resistance; zoonotic disease; avian flu; swine flu

Provide Feedback

Have ideas for a new metric? Would you like to see something else here?Let us know