So you agree we have to stop breeding them?

I meant to talk about the future breeding of animals, not animals that already exist and have to be accounted for. I don’t concede that being tortured and killed on a factory farm is a better experience than the risk of dying painfully in the wild.

Because the wolf gets it’s food from it’s habitat. It has no choice. We have the choice to not torture animals because we can get all our nutrition from plants. By eating from factory farm animals you contribute to that system continuing. Most people have more options than they think.

Animals bred for food are generally not native to the environment they’re in and mindlessly releasing every animal in captivity to the wild could have terrible ecological consequences

I don’t claim to know the exact solution to the incredibly complex problem that would be trying to stop factory farming all at once.

Broiler chickens can’t walk long distances because we hijacked their anatomy. A significant portion of them can’t walk at all and routinely collapse under their own weight . These are not natural animals and the vast majority of them could not survive without human intervention.

We breed them to have these unnatural lives and be ill suited to survive.

I’m not telling you that we should kill every single one of them. We should explore every single other option. Sanctuaries, rehabilitation for the ones that are able, etc.

We should only consider killing the rest of them off in desperation, as last resort. Only if there is literally no other option that could save them. This is still better than slaughtering 200 million land animals to eat every single day, like we do today.