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If you can afford pasture-raised chicken or grass-fed beef, the animal suffering consideration becomes less important than if you're eating factory-farmed animals.
That is a fair point. We already do that with our chicken, beef and pork having sourced them all locally and made sure that the animals are treated about as well as you could expect. In fact, there may even be a Hansonian argument that these animals generally have lives that are worth living even if you take into account that their last day may be fairly awful. I'm not sure how to factor that in either. I guess if the crappy lives of many factory-farmed chickens outweighs the crappy life of one factory-farmed cow, the nice lives of many hippy-farmed chickens should still outweigh the nice life of one hippy-farmed cow.