With news that philosophers have recently raised thousands of dollars to end factory farming–this at a time when right-wing authoritarian movements are on the rise throughout the Western democracies and, even closer to home, the Republicans have just enacted a massive tax fraud as a preliminary to an assault on the social welfare state–I wondered what the range of views about factory farming really is out there.  (Among academic philosophers, an admittedly weird sub-group, this has become a topic on which the "thought control" police are particularly aggressive, so perhaps a poll might be illuminating.)