Similarities Between Ishmael 'And All Animals Are Equal'

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Today, humans can only think about how to produce more and more on less and less amount of land or resources; and this is the reason both Daniel Quinn and Peter Singer believe that humans are overbearing and do not consider other aspects of the world. Daniel Quinn uses Ishmael to talk about the environmental disasters that humans are facing, while Peter Singer talks about how humans have treated animals unfairly and have over used them. Essentially, both authors talk about how humans have hurt this world just in polar opposite directions. Similarities between Ishmael and the article “All Animals are Equal” are big concepts such as: humans are the reason for difficult times on Earth and its inhabitants are having, inequality, and overuse. …show more content…

Factory farms are beneficial for producing large amounts of food and that’s it. Somewhere in the mid to late 1900’s, factory farming started to become a thing, fewer farms were as a result, but the farms that are still around have gotten larger and larger. In order for factory farms to work efficiently, animals are kept inside facilities that are over cramped and keeping the animals away from their natural habitats. Along with the animals being over worked, they are genetically bred to be food machines (Singer). The “machines” are producing more manure than ever, now the farmers must get rid of the manure, and a good majority of the time a portion of the manure ends up in places it is not supposed to resulting in pollution and adverse affects on the environment. However, Singer argues that only sentient creatures should be considered when talking about equality. Sentient creatures are individuals who can suffer. Therefore, since farm animals can suffer, we should treat them with same equality that humans get. In order to deal with the problems of factory farming and inequality towards animals; Singer believes that humans should know what farmers are doing towards the animals they are eating as well as moving their diets towards being a vegetarian. Through knowledge and a vegetarian diet, they will force the industry to change for the better and stop being the root cause for all the problems on the

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