Upon the recognition that some animals feel pain and are capable of suffering, it follows that they impose legitimate moral obligations on us which ought to be respected. There currently is little room in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's) for the kind of humaneness which is owed to the animals bred therein.
Although regulations exist regarding the operations of CAFO's, the animals bred in such operations are too often sufferers of wanton cruelty by inefficient methods of slaughter, overcrowding and disease. Regulations that are in place tend to be dodged, difficult to enforce, or unenforceable.
I urge the government to ensure compliance with current regulation and to implement further measures to reduce the wanton cruelties of CAFO's.