Is it moral to breed animals into existence purely for consumption?

That's all the more reason to go vegetarian. Those breeds shouldn't exist, they're often not healthy and are often completely dependent on humans to survive. I'm not even a big animal lover, but it's undeniably cruel what's done to animals their entire lives for the sake of meat.

I raise a couple pigs, sheep, and goats, for consumption every year. I own a few dozen head of cattle but I don’t manage them personally. It’s something my family has always done

I believe in sustainable, ethical, and waste-less husbandry. I know their living conditions, what they eat, what vaccines/medications they receive, how they’re processed, and how they’re preserved, because I’m the one overseeing it all. Raising my own animals also reduces both animal waste and packaging/shipping waste. I’m not ripping down timberland for graze pasture here in Siberia plains
My dad would always say “If slaughter day doesn’t make you feel like shit you aren’t raising your animals well enough”

I produce more animals than my family can consume so I donate a few to our local Youth Agriculture program (I think almost every country has something similar) which they train, show, and then auction. Trade some to my neighbors for produce and hay for my horses, and then I keep a few females for breeding. I don’t inbreed, force-breed, or breed back-to-back, like most commercial chains do. I won’t do veal practices.

There are unethical breeds, some feeder birds are blown up to horrible sizes and live unhealthy their whole lives. Some cattle breeds are uncomfortable from birth but are manmade to maximize profits and grow to harvest size fast.
Also, outside of consumption livestock, there are unethical pet breeds. Brachycephalic dog breeds, “designer” mutts with horrible health issues, working breeds living in apartments, “line-bred” horses which is just a fancy word for inbred. I’m rambling

But no I don’t believe the producing of animals for consumption is immoral on its own, but there are immoral practices that should absolutely be illegal and taken action against. I commend vegans and vegetarians actually, but many of them are still falling into unethical farming practices. And unethical working practices used to harvest the food they eat.

If you want to go vegan/veg do your research.
If you will continue to eat meat, I suggest you find a local farm to get your products from.

No, but everyone can't be vegetarians or vegans or simply doesn't want to. As humans we are made to eat meat so it takes a lot more planning and shit to have a healthy diet as a vegetarian and even more as a vegan not to mention often vegan products cost more.
Hunting is obviously more morally right since the animal at least lived a good free life up until its death, but everyone can't hunt for a living or run a nice farm. It's a shame but it's reality.

Those cows were born for my plate. If you go vegeterian make sure you supplement B vitamins.

Humans need meat. This is a fact.

Yes it is so long as you do it ethically. Don't make pug like monstrosities and you're fine. We're the world's apex predator, you kind of have to be okay eating meat otherwise you're just fighting nature.

Are not vegetarians just growing plants with the sole purpose to kill and eat them.

I've never understood why its moral to produce and kill plants for food; but not moral to produce and kill animals for food.

Of course animals should be bred for consumption. Animals are lesser than humans so I see no moral quandaries with utilizing them to our full benefit.

All I have is some mild suggestions for the wellbeing for the animal as some processes are simply barbaric. Such as the Korean practice of skinning a dog alive so the meat tastes better. Jesus just synthesize a seasoning that mimics it. Not saying we should ban eating dogs just not killing them in such a dastardly manner. Perfect example of this would be multching male baby chickens. They'll peck eachother to death and take up resources. Best just to grind them up out of the egg and turn it into pet food or fertilizer.

I'm also not saying to wholesale slaughter every single animal. We need other animals to keep the environment stable. Plus we cannot be certain that some animals are completely pointless. What if the cure for cancer was inside the bark of a simple tree, or in the bone marrow of a ferret? Think I'm crazy in that assumption you need to look at how we utilize horseshoe crabs to help with sterilizing medical tools. I'm sure every animal has at least a niche purpose that can serve mankind.

I accidentally hit normal. But your logic is not normal.

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