A New York Times editorial denounces battery cages, praises Schwarzenegger for signing their death warrant in California, and concludes:
…there is no justification, economic or otherwise, for the abusive practice of confining animals in spaces barely larger than the volume of their bodies. Animals with more space are healthier, and they are no less productive.
Industrial confinement is cruel and senseless and will turn out to be, we hope, a relatively short-lived anomaly in modern farming.
Can you imagine? The New York Times is saying that industrial confinement—the cornerstone of factory farming—is cruel, senseless, and cannot be justified.
What we’re seeing with factory farming right now is a system in the early stages of collapse. (Via EdibleSF.) Link.
