> Is it really unethical to eat animals when the natural trajectory of most animals lives was likely to be eaten by other animals or die some horrendous death i

> Is it really unethical to eat animals when the natural trajectory of most animals lives was likely to be eaten by other animals or die some horrendous death in their natural environment? The ethical base of factory farming starts off equivalent with putting a wild animal into a zoo cage for the remainder of its life against its natural will to have freedom. Tack off some “ethical” points for the misery of its living conditions, which are almost universally terrible. Tack off still more ethics points for systematic premeditated murder on a commercial scale for profit. > Isn't it better for an animal to live its best life on a free range farm being grass fed, then get quickly and humanely slaughtered? As someone who has lived in an area with heavy animal agriculture, “free range” basically translates to “cram as many $ANIMALS as we legally can into an area modulo our budget, and then neglect them to every extent allowable by law, followed by murdering them in cold blood because we need money”. IOW “free range” is sick, twisted marketing that doesn’t reflect reality. > If I made a personal decision to stop eating meat, would there be any significant impact at all on the overall environment realistically? Nothing matters more than money to animal agriculture operations. Don’t underestimate the power of taking your money elsewhere. The rest of your commentary is more a critique of human overpopulation, and the myriad problems this poses.