>But the life of an animal bred for human consumption is not "somewhat unhappy". It's closer to "absolutely depressing" or "shockingly inhumane". I've seen ple

>But the life of an animal bred for human consumption is not "somewhat unhappy". It's closer to "absolutely depressing" or "shockingly inhumane". I've seen plenty of pastures with lazy, grass-munching cows to believe this is universally true. Sure, the life of many factory-farmed animals isn't great at all (particularly thinking of Tyson chickens here), but this isn't universally true. Livestock in many other parts of the world does not live this way. There's more to the world than America, you know. >Is it better for a human to never exist or for it to be born and then at the age of 6 we murder it? The obvious answer to that is that it's much better that that human never exist. That isn't obvious at all. What if that child has a nice, happy, carefree existence until it hits the age of 6? Who are you to say that life isn't worth living?