I have no qualms eating meat (I eat more than my doctor says I should). Your comment seems pretty disingenuous though. You're comparing life in the wild to tha

I have no qualms eating meat (I eat more than my doctor says I should). Your comment seems pretty disingenuous though. You're comparing life in the wild to that on a small family farm. Factory farms, especially those that produce poultry, are far more horrifying. There is also a growing body of evidence suggesting that many of the drugs (antibiotics and hormones in particular) that we pump our farm animals full of are actively detrimental to their daily comfort. It sounds to me like your statement was crafted as a defense of your dietary choices rather than an objective assessment of animal wellbeing. Of course none of this arguing really means anything without some scientific data to back this up. I'd like to see a comparison of cortisol levels and other stress indicators in wild vs factory chickens.