It’s simply not that hard to raise food animals in a way that makes them better off than wild animals
And yet it’s extraordinarily difficult to actually find meat from animals that were raised truly humanely. See this comment.
Also, I think the standard one should apply is whether an animal has a good life, not whether it as a life better than it would if it were in the wild. If you have a life that is very not worth living, it would better to not exist than to move up to having a life that is only moderately not worth living.
Ninjaedit: Actually, I think I misunderstood your point about farm animals having lives better than wild animals. Are you saying that it’s worth it to have non-factory-farmed farm animals when their lives are better than those of comparable wild animals, because they displace the existence of those wild animals?
And yet it’s extraordinarily difficult to actually find meat from animals that were raised truly humanely. See this comment.
Also, I think the standard one should apply is whether an animal has a good life, not whether it as a life better than it would if it were in the wild. If you have a life that is very not worth living, it would better to not exist than to move up to having a life that is only moderately not worth living.
Ninjaedit: Actually, I think I misunderstood your point about farm animals having lives better than wild animals. Are you saying that it’s worth it to have non-factory-farmed farm animals when their lives are better than those of comparable wild animals, because they displace the existence of those wild animals?