How do you compare with Iceland's prices? Or any one of the zillions of awful fast food chicken/kebab outlets?
I'm genuinely at a loss as to what point you think you're making now.
There are three strands to this, which keep getting tangled up.
First, there is the basic morality of farming animals and eating meat. Should we be doing this at all? Should those who think it's wrong be telling others that they are wrong to participate?
Second, linked, there is animal welfare and the ethics of intensive animal farming of various kinds. Should we be doing this at all? Should those who think it's wrong be telling others that they are wrong to participate?
And then third, there are the arguments to do with sustainability, boidiversity, potentially climate-changing effects, and social justice for producers and consumers. In contrast to the first two strands, which potentially have simple answers depending on your beliefs, this last one is complex and wide-ranging. It's very certainly not as simple as plants good animals bad for a whole host of reasons to do with monocultures, biodiversity, soils, the widespread use of fertilisers and pesticides made using oil, etc, etc.
Our positions on the first two strands are of course going to influence what we think the last strand should be. But this last strand is essentially separate from the other two. Animal farming can be done in sustainable ways. Plant farming can be done in unsustainable ways. And many of the sustainable methods of doing one involve integration with the other.
It would be helpful if we were able to keep a clear head as to which bit of this we're addressing in our posts. Full-frontal triple-strand arguments don't work.
