Norcross's Analogy For Purchasing Factory Raised Meats

Norcross uses an argument from analogy for an attempt to persuade his readers that purchasing factory raised meats is immoral. He tells his audience about a man that tortured puppies for his taste pleasures and compares that to people purchasing factory raised meats for their taste pleasures. He doesn’t however encourage people to not eat meat at all, just not factory raised meat. He informs his readers to what extent of suffering that the factory raised animals endure throughout their lives. He also argues that people are not naïve to what the animals endure when being factory raised, because campaigns have made the cruelty well known. Machan presents an argument that animals are not entitled to the same rights and liberations that humans
Norcross feels that both should be considered equally immoral because in both situations the animals are enduring torture at the hands of someone for the benefit of the people. Machan concluded that since animals don’t have the capability to be held morally responsible for their actions they are not considered to be moral agents. Therefore, they are not entitled to the same rights and liberations that humans are. So, since animals are not held accountable for making a right or wrong decision because they can’t distinguish between the two they are not morally responsible for their actions and are not entitled to the rights and liberations. Also, Machan concluded that animals can be used for human success because humans must use what is available to them for advancements. Since humans are more important than animals it isn’t unjust to use them for such advancements. The conclusions made by Norcross and Machan could be true considering that both Norcross and Machan give validity to their arguments and offer objections that could be considered but show that those objections hold no