There are many problems within the meat industry and how we treat animals. The article I read that really opened my eyes to this steadily growing problem is For How Long Can We Treat the Suffering of Animals as an Inconvenient Truth? by Michael Brooks. This article explains how there is evidence showing that animals feel distress and are smarter than we think they are. Brooks even says that chickens can feel empathy for one another. Researcher Richard Dawkins said that, “We have no general reason to think that non-human animals feel pain less acutely than we do.” This article basically says that animals can feel and we should be considerate and if we should eat them, do it humanely. Neuroscientist Christof Koch has explained his feelings towards eating the creatures. “What right do I have to kill them if theyre not just automatic but can actually sense and feel?” I believe in this all the way, I personally don’t believe that I should eat animals because I know I dont have the heart to kill one myself, so how can i consume one? This article also highlights how intensive farming that we do in America is causing fish, chicken and many other animals distress. He ended the article by asking if we should feel as uncomfortable with cloning pigs as we were with humans, or is that too much to ask? If we showed half the concern towards animals as we do with humans, then maybe we would all live life together happily.