Certainly. There are many areas where animals are abused today,
and certainly there is much that needs to be done. However, one should keep in
mind that the major area of animal abuse is related to factory farming. According
to FARM (Farm Animal Reform Movement), "The number of warm-blooded animals brutalized
and slaughtered each year is approximately 70 times the number of animals killed
in laboratories, 30 times the number killed by hunters and trappers, and 500 times
the number killed in pounds. An animal welfare advocate who eats meat is personally
responsible for the slaughter of 22 warm-blooded animals per year, more than 1,500
in a lifetime, and far more when including sea animals, slaughtered for the advocate's
meat-eating family and pets.
