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There are perfectly good circumstances to start farming animals, like when your survival depends on it. I suspect that there could be a similar situation with farming humans (or at least process them into Soylent Green). Other that that, I agree on the status quo bias.
Re slavery:
Yes, this obvious analogy occurred to me. I would feel more urgency to reevaluate my ethical system if I considered farm animals my equals. Your reasons for doing so may differ. Presumably the emancipation was in part based on that reason, in part on compassion or other reasons, I am not an expert in the subject matter.
Ethical/moral objections aside, initiating the practice of human farming wouldn't be a logical or practical choice, as presumably farm-rearing humans would be just as energy-inefficient as farm-rearing livestock:
Killing and eating excess humans in the process of reducing the world's population to a sustainable level, on the other hand, might qualify as a logical use of resources.