Animal production as a means for food and clothing has long been a practice that humans have performed for thousands of years. Today, more than ever, the issue on whether or not conduct of mistreatment is actively occurring in agriculture is passionately being debated. Those that oppose animal cruelty protest the destructive means of “production” at a cost of millions of animals each year. Some of the processes that slaughter houses, animal protectionists say, are …showed first 75 words of 1780 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1780 total…that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or week or even a month, old? But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? Nor Can they talk? But, Can they suffer?” – Jeremy Bentham.