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And along those lines, what if we only slaughtered animals for food consumption right at the end of their natural life? Would that not satisfy the morality issu

• steve_adams_86 5y ago
  This is done with dairy cows somewhere (I can't recall) but I found it nice in a sense. They put a lot of care into making the dairy cows' lives good by giving them pasture, caring for them, and having relatively low expectations for their output. There are still inherent issues with dairy, such as forced impregnation and abduction and murder of the offspring, so it isn't great no matter how you slice it. But if we're to compare dairy operations, this one was pretty good I guess. When the cows stopped producing much milk, they had some way of pasturing them for around 2 years before they'd then slaughter them for meat. In total the cows had quite long and low pressure lives. The dairy and meat was very expensive, though. I think that's the realistic outcome of treating animals more morally. It isn't cheap.