Farmers typically describe their animals as happy. This doesn't jive with the depictions made by activists vegans of even non-commercial farming. One of you is

Farmers typically describe their animals as happy. This doesn't jive with the depictions made by activists vegans of even non-commercial farming. One of you is wrong. Which is it? That aside, articles like these are more about convincing the author than anyone else in my view. That doesn't necessarily mean he's wrong. See for example Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. He repeatedly mulls over the prospect of death, with aphorisms to suggest it's nothing to be afraid of. Death was on his mind. This farmer seems to focus on conveying that he has every reason to be happy. It's no coincidence that suicide rates are highest among farmers - is this man simply built different, or is he convincing himself?