I think there is a fundamental difference in wild animals and factory farmed animals—if factory farming were to stop, there would no longer be any factory farmed animals. They are created specifically for that purpose. One can’t provide welfare for factory farmed animals without stopping factory farming, and then there wouldn’t be any factory farmed animals.
Though, I suppose, one could raise animals in ideal welfare conditions and then painlessly kill them for food. I would be fine with that.
There’s something strange with your terms there… are you using “factory farmed” as a descriptor of… kinds (species, etc.) of animals? Or animals that happen to exist in conditions of factory farming? I am confused.
Factory farmed animals are animals that happen to exist in conditions of factory farming. And “factory farming” is meant to convey not just mass production, but also the present quality of farming with regard to animal welfare.
I think there is a fundamental difference in wild animals and factory farmed animals—if factory farming were to stop, there would no longer be any factory farmed animals. They are created specifically for that purpose. One can’t provide welfare for factory farmed animals without stopping factory farming, and then there wouldn’t be any factory farmed animals.
Though, I suppose, one could raise animals in ideal welfare conditions and then painlessly kill them for food. I would be fine with that.
There’s something strange with your terms there… are you using “factory farmed” as a descriptor of… kinds (species, etc.) of animals? Or animals that happen to exist in conditions of factory farming? I am confused.
Factory farmed animals are animals that happen to exist in conditions of factory farming. And “factory farming” is meant to convey not just mass production, but also the present quality of farming with regard to animal welfare.