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Would it really be better for cows if people didn't eat meat? Certainly the number of cows alive would decline by several orders of magnitude.
Personally, I think a case can be made that pastured cows have net positive lives, and that eating beef is ethically OK. Some folks disagree, but I think beef is generally the least unethical meat.
Every single person advocating lab grown meat needs to look up @AllanRSavory and @SavoryInstitute and carbon sequestration. Grass fed ruminants perform valuable ecological role, can help sequester carbon in soil, turn untillable landscape into food and help reverse climatechange
Did you miss the comment where I advocated eating beef?
Producing beef takes up far more land. We have literally replaced most of the planet's megafauna with cows. To really engage with these issues, it's difficult to avoid conclusion that we should replace consumption of animal products with plant-based foods to degree possible
A third of the world's land is grassland/pastureland. Raising cows is a good way to preserve it, arguably.
But by far the worst (with mutton) impact with regard to greenhouse gases emissions... Is it ethically OK to promote any (avoidable) activity that has a strong negative environmental impact?
I'm not convinced that slowing global warming by a very small amount (by not eating cows) should override the suffering of over 50 billion chickens a year. (Setting aside the potential of geoengineering.)
Lab grown meat, OTOH, centralizes food production under total corporate control, introduces hidden potential risks (margarine and DDT were both scientifically proven to be safe until they werent), imposes hidden enviro/econ costs, for dubious ethical benefit. Stupid.
Agree re: factory farming (esp poultry) practices are abominable. People are remarkably naive on this issue though. New+high tech, so sounds good! Ignore systemic risk and redundancy components.
Even in this puzzling framework, the least unethical meat would certainly be all wild game
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