QueenofKings
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Vegans that believe animal life is intrinsically worth as much as A human's are wrong, but they're headed in the right direction. The current state of factory farming is fucked up, but more importantly unsustainable environmentally. Not to mention some of slaughtering methods are extremely inhumane.
Hippie fairy white vegans are in their own world. Of course human life > animal life. But there is no need to be cruel to animals.
As you said industrial farming is cruel and environmentally unsustainable. But even on a human health level, industrially farmed animals lack proper nutrition. And so they do not provide us with the nutrition we think they do. Example, animals obtain nutrients from eating plants - eating diverse plants is key to obtaining different nutrients. But industrial animals are fed only cheap soy proteins. The focus is to get them fat not nutritionally enriched. Of course plants only provide the nutrients available to them through the soil but if the soil is industrially farmed and pesticides are applied etc, it becomes depleted of key minerals. It’s a vicious cycle.
Lastly, I also have to question the halal-ness of food produced in such a way. Islam teaches us to be kind to animals and not mistreat them. Compassionate animal husbandry is a vital part of halal meat production imo.