http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/farming-confessional-we-need-to-evolve-so-that-we-do-not-kill-to-eat-9152958.html

This was a very interesting documentary I found looking at the ethics of farming. Some of the views raised in this article are very conflicting as they are the views of a farmer, who makes I living out of something he is reluctant to do, kill animals. The writer talks of his moral dilemma, and how he attempts to find the balance by killing animals in the most humane way possible.

One morning, I woke up absolutely certain that killing animals to eat their meat was wrong. So it might seem as though I’ve sided with animal-rights advocates, but the long view that I’m taking on this makes my position more complicated than that. My feelings about the ethics of livestock farming ebb and flow. I have no plans to stop eating meat or raising animals for slaughter. But I believe that we as a species need to evolve into the sorts of beings that do not kill to eat. For now, I justify non-industrial farming as a necessary compromise that will gradually shift how we think about using animals as food.