Thank you. I am familiar with the book.
Meat is murder (unless it is lab-grown), whether it comes from a factory farm or a local pasture. Unless you're an obligate carnivore, it's a senseless death.
Yes, industrialized farming is typically more abusive to both animals and the environment, and I appreciate your point about nutritional differences. But that is where the overwhelming population gets their meat from, and the ethical question remains the same—a life is still taken unnecessarily, regardless of how "well" the animal lived before slaughter.
For those with access to food choices, ethical considerations should guide our decisions. Some might argue about survival situations, but these represent extreme edge cases that don't reflect the reality of modern food systems. In our daily lives with abundant food choices, we're not facing life-or-death decisions that force such ethical dilemmas.
You wouldn't eat a dog or a cat, would you? Why do they get a cultural pass while others are raised to be slaughtered?
The financing and corporate structure problems you mention are real, but they don't change the fundamental moral issue at hand.
