Peter Singer’s Down on the Factory Farm is a detailed depiction of how  the huge factory farming companies exploit animals and  how they slaughter the animals  inhumanely. He states when the farms were not industrialized they were more humane in the treatment and the killing of the farm animals. When big business took over the farms and … More Factory Farm

Utilitarianism I: Mills starts by addressing the issue of crisis in moral thinking. He finds that people have a hard time coming to a general agreement as to what right and wrong are based on. He argues this foundation is needed in order for morality to have significance or validity. If one where to measure where “good” ends, we … More Mills and Utilitarianism