As part of the writing program and the undergraduate education program at USC, I wrote this paper in Writing 340, which weaved my interests in anti-speciesism, veganism, philosophy, and personal interests in combating mainstream misconceptions concerning the U.S. food systems, specifically of that of the industrial meat industry. 

I mostly focused on a philosophical and ethical analysis analyzing the immorality of carnism.

Many folks in our everyday world do not think much about the pernicious and pervasive outreach of the industrialized livestock agriculture industry, which involves intensive animal husbandry and the entire manufacturing and production process, which involves the packing, preservation, and marketing of meat. In fact, every day many innocent nonhuman animals are slaughtered, processed, packaged, distributed, and marketed not as nonhuman sentient beings deserving of life and respect but as butchered commodities for human-animal consumption.

The main premise of my paper, as underscored by moral and ethical philosophies, is that animals should not be bred for violence and harm. Most importantly, combatting carnism under the kyriarchy is consistently one of the most pressing issues of the 21st Century, which is difficult to advocate for since it elucidates flaws in how invisible speciesism is to a person born into a world that readily accepts the social norms of carnism. I underscore a necessary moral societal reckoning that highlights how human supremacists have designed violence such as the industrial factory farming system, which continue to skew mainstream orthodoxy, ideologies, and personal moral philosophies and principles in society who must reconcile myopic speciesism that will raise questions about the moral status of farmed animals who do not consent to their commodification, enslavement, and objectification in the industrial farming system.