You seem to agree with me that there is a continuum of horrific treatment, a bolt to the head and hung up by a leg being worse than being "put down". I agree wi

You seem to agree with me that there is a continuum of horrific treatment, a bolt to the head and hung up by a leg being worse than being "put down". I agree with that. I also agree that eating meat and claiming to be in favor of animal rights involves a certain amount of hypocrisy. I accept that, and I am still coming to terms with it personally (I have noted to friends, only half-jokingly, that I'm only about one PETA video away from becoming a vegetarian, and so I try to avoid them). That being said, and given that there is a continuum of mistreatment, I still think it is acceptable to eat meat and attempt to encourage more humane treatment of the animals. The hypocrisy is still there, but surely less cruelty is an improvement even if the treatment is still cruel. Of course at some point you will reach a minimum viable level of cruelty, at which point people will have some uncomfortable choices to make, but that's a good thing in my mind.