News outlets are predicting a coming “bacon apocalypse,” thanks to new regulations that require pork producers raising pigs or selling meat in California to treat the animals in a more humane way. While such warnings make for good headlines, as one of the articles in this week’s Weekend Reader explains, the hullabaloo misses the real issue: the terrible conditions and treatment of animals in the country’s factory farms.
Read all about it in this week’s Weekend Reader, exclusively for paying subscribers below.
For the most part, American animal agriculture is horrendous from top to bottom, wreaking widespread environmental destruction and causing tremendous amounts of unnecessary misery, suffering, and violence. This law is a very small step in the right direction.