On Animals

Created by DALL·E 3 from my prompt

Is life a gift for factory farmed animals even though it ends in getting slaughtered? Should you support the continuation of giving those gifts?

Can animal production ever be acceptable? Is it always a little ugly at least?

(Or do they even notice their lives?)

Does animal rights activism need a clarification that it’s also about animals’ right to not be born? To what extent can animal production be defended for giving animals a life? Does it at least alleviate the ugliness of eating meat in an absolutely unique way?

(The animal could not have been born very different or in a very different place. The potential for it was particular and it — and it was only that — was located only in particular places. The only other alternative in this respect was non-coming to existence. In addition, there is that which can go many ways.)

Some are antinatalists on human life too. I personally stabilized elsewhere.

Is fish farming, for example, an ugly way of ”playing with reality”? (Consciousness playdough?) That probably isn’t part of a beautiful life.

Can you ever minimize total animal suffering and premature death, insects included, by eating something else than plants?