What kind of human population controls are you in favor of?

Castration Lottery? Selective Disease Introduction? Limits on children allowed per household?

Because our consumption is the problem, animals are a resource, not partners. If iron was cute and cuddly, you would see teenage girls and metrosexual dudes boycotting engine blocks. Maximizing our resources to get them to the maximum number of people at the cheapest cost is important for both capitalist and socialist thinkers. Unless you reduce the number of people, you have to increase the number of resources. Animals, unlike Iron, are a replacable resource, and, better then Iron, we can improve them and make them more productive and delicious.

Yes, it is heart wrenching to see the way that animals are treated. The problem is that the benefits of all our modern ways of processing animals go to people who dont really NEED it. Africa needs them chickens a whole lot more then KFC. But hey, they have the same resources that we do, it isn’t our job to feed them ignorant bastards.