There's a Parfitian argument that, since none of these animals would have existed otherwise, then killing them for food is no problem.
Only if their lives are worth living.
But this would also apply to farming people, whether for food or chattel slavery, which we find repugnant.
You're willing to create people who are doomed to die of old age. Does it really matter how you die?
Does it really matter how you die?
Um, yes?
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