Just one comment on chicken farming. I'm not too sure if you have actually worked or spent a large amount of time in a chicken processing plant or chicken farm, but you have used incorrect specifics about it. I have worked in one and the facts you used about chickens being "literally stuck in a 1'x1' box... or in a giant coop where each chicken still only gets about a cubic foot of space" is actually wrong - at least on the farms I have witnessed firsthand. If meat is stressed throughout life, and in particular before death, then it will be a ter... (read more)
I realize the grandparent explicitly mentioned chicken meat, but I think a lot of the memes about chicken mistreatment come out of the egg industry, and may have crosspollinated. Do you have comparable insights about egg-laying chickens' conditions?
Just one comment on chicken farming. I'm not too sure if you have actually worked or spent a large amount of time in a chicken processing plant or chicken farm, but you have used incorrect specifics about it. I have worked in one and the facts you used about chickens being "literally stuck in a 1'x1' box... or in a giant coop where each chicken still only gets about a cubic foot of space" is actually wrong - at least on the farms I have witnessed firsthand. If meat is stressed throughout life, and in particular before death, then it will be a ter... (read more)