> Of course, the animals we eat should have good lives, and so the worst kind of factory farming is not justified by this argument, since these animals have no

> Of course, the animals we eat should have good lives, and so the worst kind of factory farming is not justified by this argument, since these animals have no quality of life. Yes, this is one of the points that the article tries to make. Here in Australia we see a lot of people parrot the argument against eating meat based on US factory farming, even though most* farming in Australia is a lot more "ethical". (There is of course a lot of examples of less than ethical farms - chicken farming for instance, as well as the live export sheep and beef market) - but on a whole our livestock is treated a lot better than in the US. Ideally you'd want to be hunting and butchering your own food, but short of that there are more ethically sound options available than large scale production farming. I would assume in the States you can also find these kinds of options.