@mattbrowne – I have spent a fair bit of time in the wild, I just returned from 6 years living very remotely. I saw animals involved in their carnivorous pursuits which does involve suffering for the one who is to be dinner. And I know there is starvation among those creatures who have been displaced because of human encroachment. But when an animal in the wild becomes sick it usually dies quickly or is dispatched quickly by a predator.
Whereas those living in factory farms have a total existence that includes suffering and deprivation. Battery chickens never see the light of day or feel grass under their feet, their beaks are removed, they are pathetic things, same sort of deprivation is true in hog farms and veal as well.
I have never seen groups of animals suffer like that in the wild.
I believe in the good of people as well but to make a blanket generalization that all will buy free range when millionaires cease receiving tax cuts is a stretch, I don’t see a link between the 2. I think you were using the question to promote your brand of politics. And really now we went from eating meat to child labor, I can’t keep up with your changes of subject.
@ coloma – good on ya, nothing goes to waste here either, it is recycled through the dogs or birds or compost!