I find it frustrating that it's difficult to get real stats in North America. You either hear from animals rights groups who will always tell you everything is

I find it frustrating that it's difficult to get real stats in North America. You either hear from animals rights groups who will always tell you everything is bad, or farmers Op-eds who say nothing is, but not an impartial source with real data to form a clear picture. Which means any decision to avoid the prospect of bad treatment of animals is a guess erring on the side of caution, and people proselytize on the strength of conjecture. To say nothing of the fact that people will not agree on what poor treatment of animals means; for activists, it's absolute by virtue of captivity, close quarters, and death. Consumers of animal products obviously don't agree with that metric and don't care. Surely greater transparency and regulation could be achievable. No reason consumers still have to be in the dark and have to make decisions based on vagaries, anecdotes, cherry-picking. I expect lobbying groups have opposed this but this will blow up in their faces.