Should We Eat Anything With A Face?

Wednesday night, the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate series took on vegetarianism and animal rights with the motion Should we eat anything with a face? So who won?

The debate spanned nearly 90 minutes and covered nutrition, environmental concerns, animal welfare, and ethics.

One thing that was established early on in the debate is that all of the panelists are against industrial factory farming, so the discussion of that industry’s ethics was off the table completely even though 99 percent of all farmed animals raised and slaughtered in the United States are from factory farms.

What they did discuss was the following…