I'm sympathetic to this view, but in the practical realm we had to fight the bloodiest war in our history to settle the the question of human slavery. It was th

I'm sympathetic to this view, but in the practical realm we had to fight the bloodiest war in our history to settle the the question of human slavery. It was the right thing to do, but if someone really feels factory farming is as bad as chattel slavery (which is IMO an exaggeration, though I agree it's bad), they should consider acts like this to be the opening salvo in a bloody war, not an end in themselves.