intensive husbandry

Many County Councils are selling off their statutory smallholdings; on the rest the rents are so high that the tenants are forced into intensive husbandry.

To compensate for the drastic declines in birds and seafood, people shifted to intensive husbandry of pigs, which came to account for nearly half of all protein consumed.

Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry (it cannot be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering.

Even if all meat and dairy products were produced by intensive husbandry and the alleged abuses were rife it would nonetheless be perfectly fair to argue that the possible catastrophic consequences of widespread vegetarianism for human beings, which have been pointed out, would more than outweigh the continued suffering of the animals.