By contrast the lives of factory farmed animals are incredibly gentle and easy, with almost no suffering
I find this believable for cows, but not chickens.
We have been breeding domestic animals for millennia to thrive in captivity
As I understand it, factory farming conditions in the past 100-200 years are very different to what farmed animals experienced prior to that. If people in 1700 had tried raising chickens in conditions we raise them in today, the chickens would have died of disease and vitamin deficiencies.
So sure, farmed chickens are probably very different from the wild chickens they’re descended from. But farmed chickens aren’t raised in the conditions we’ve been breeding them in for millennia.
I find this believable for cows, but not chickens.
As I understand it, factory farming conditions in the past 100-200 years are very different to what farmed animals experienced prior to that. If people in 1700 had tried raising chickens in conditions we raise them in today, the chickens would have died of disease and vitamin deficiencies.
So sure, farmed chickens are probably very different from the wild chickens they’re descended from. But farmed chickens aren’t raised in the conditions we’ve been breeding them in for millennia.