This House Believes In Banning Factory Farming

......Wow.... hahah obvisiously ur way better than me lol but i'll try my best to win! (i couldnt rebute all the info shmackies made czuse that would take ages...) He rebuted my 'we will have to slaughter animals for meat, one way or another' saying "Although animals will have to be killed, factory farming gives animals a poor quality of life and encourages inhumane treatment of animals" This doesnt relate to my point as even if the act of factory farming is not morally right, we cant do anything about that. even if factory farming gives animals a poor quality life we would still to slaughter meat anyway. even free ranges farming is the same, "feed,fatten and kill!" He also said "Gaseous emissions from swine manure storage systems represent a concern to air quality due to the potential impacts of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, methane, and volatile organic compounds on environmental quality, human health, and wellbeing" Come on – a pig fart joke is one thing, but you can't seriously argue this! Are we really supposed to believe that pig-produced methane is even in the same league as pollution from big business and industry? A better alternative for this will be requiring the upkeep and replacement of turf, not for banning a whole industry. On the Unethical part, as agian i will repeat, no matter how cruel and inhumane YOU think factory farming is, we will still have to KILL anmials one way or another. killing is unethical but its a beast eat beast world out there and its the survival of the fittest. Many of these animals exist because we eat them, anyway – pigs, cows, sheep, chickens – all animals that are bred in their millions because we want to eat them. Man should treat man with respect and dignity – but animals are not our equals, don't have any capacity for higher thought, and can be used for our benefit without any moral problem. Furthermore, the large firms responsible for ‘factory' farming are more easily monitored by law so the animals often fare better than they would have done in normal farming – so it's not true that factory farming is particularly cruel. Factory farming is less cruel than you think. What is true is that activists have ensured the few isolated incidents of cruelty or bad practice have received publicity well out of proportion with their significance. Another point i think you said something about factory farmers feeding growth pills that speeds up growth. well farming has always been the imposition of artificial, man-made patterns on nature so we're doing what farming is meant to do. I'll just include only one major point and then i'll finish (thank goodness ^.^') Impratical. to ban factory farming, you would have to get rid of all factory farms, demolish them, fire and re-hire staff, train staff, provide massive amout of land needs for free ranged farming and rasie the prices on all meat industries. thats Ridiculous!! not only will that be impossibe to provide as much meat provided by factory farms, people in low-income communties would go insane! due to the recent raise in GST it is getting harder to put food on the table. by getting rid of factory farms, meat prices would sky-rocket!! Vote CON!!