"Empty Cages"

Tom Regan writes,

"Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages." 

Misinformation, infantilism, and negative imagery aside, ethical veganism

"unmasks the rhetoric of these industries (e.g., factory farming) and shows why what their spokespersons say about their treatment of animals (these industries treat animals "humanely") is not sometimes false. It is always false."

Note: Ad hominem "arguments" are fallacious:

1) Person A makes a claim;

2) Person B makes an attack on Person A;

3) Therefore A's claim is false.

"The character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made - or the quality of the argument being made."

What this method of argumentation amounts to is the strategic avoidance of having a discourse about our premises, opting instead to rely on childish antics and attempted character assassinations such as the following:

"Of course you believe that nonhumans shouldn't suffer merely because we believe they taste good, you're an atheist; ergo nothing you say in support of your position counts because, again, you're just a godless heathen (and you hate humans and Jesus)."