SWA 9

The central claim of the first article is that because farmers who use factory farming methods do not raise their livestock naturally, the quality of their product goes down. Also, the inhumane methods that factory farmers use is morally wrong, because livestock are not treated with respect and dignity. The author assumes that, because the audience most likely respects that livestock should not be harmed as they grow up, the audience values the livestock's right to not be treated cruelly. Also, the livestock deserve to be able to eat a diet of healthy food that only has beneficial effects on an animal's body, because the audience most likely assumes that livestock graze on natural grass and insects.