Factory farming has been roundly criticized in the ethical literature, and has received virtually no defense. This essay uses an intuitivist, utilitarian, and ratiocentric philosophical position to provide a reasonable middle ground between twin evils: immoral non-consideration of animal interests on one hand and immoral over-consideration of those interests to the detriment of human ones on the other.
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