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I mean, I myself limit myself to organic food whenever possible and agree with quite a lot of the critique towards agriculture and think about how to reform it.Personally i have no issue with moral vegans that don't eat meat because the animal suffers. Their choice don't do things you don't like. But generally morality of such things is hard to measure, animals are not moral creatures. Most creatures will not kill you but will start eating you alive when you stop resisting. Bears Love fatty salmon skin so in times of abundance they will basically skin them alive and leave huge chunks uneaten.
I would be for keeping animals in decent living conditions and killing them quickly. Hunting as an example would be morally perfectly fine, considering you use the animal.
As for environmental reasons I'm unsure of how harmful it actually is. Husbandry is a part of harmful emissions. The claims of how much less space agriculture would require to feed the same amount doesn't tell the full picture, since from what i've understood the current method is the most efficient way for farmers.
Keeping vacant farmland for husbandry fertilizes the soil, in some parts farming is not possible but sheep herding is, you get milk, cheese, hides, fur and stuff from the animals. So i'm unsure if stopping husbandry would even be viable.
Maybe in the future we all start eating lab grown meat or something.
I think when a more economically & environmentally efficient option does come people will gravitate to it naturally.
If you guys have good sources about any of this i'd like to read them.
There is a lot wrong with farming and farmers here are pretty foolish, as they are getting tricked by their own interest organisation to work against themselves. Poisoning themselves with pesticides and protesting against their bans, participating in price gouging that works against them and only benefits large farmers, etc.
Lab grown meat just really needs to get away from using baby cow juice as the growth medium, though, as it otherwise is honestly worse. Which doesn't actually seem that impossible
Though there also is that thing with, if there was no husbandry, that would also mean that all those animals would likely go extinct, not to mention that some animal products, like honey are even pretty consensually given by the bees, and are also better than the vegan replacement (agave syrup is commonly produced with deforestation and monoculture plantages)