[sudden_dystopia]

I under that factory farming is absolutely ugly and there is a lot of low hanging fruit in how to improve it. But I never understand the extremist philosophy that no one should eat chickens or raise them in their back yard for eggs. Chickens simply don’t exist in the wild and are very far removed from the jungle fowl from which they came so long ago. If we stopped eating and raising them, they would go extinct. Is it better for a species to live in often poor conditions or to not exist entirely?

[lupire]

How much suffering are you comfortable imposing upon others for your own aesthetic satisfaction?

If no one is willing to do something humanely, then no one deserves to have it. It's not a complicated analysis.

[em-bee]

Is it better for a species to live in often poor conditions or to not exist entirely?

if those are the two choices, then i'd prefer the later.

but isn't there a third choice? to raise chicken in good conditions?

i suppose maybe that doing so would reduce the amount of chicken we can consume, and also raise the price, but i think that is preferable to letting them suffer.

[lsaferite]

> Chickens simply don’t exist in the wild

While I get your overall point, I'd just like to point out the island of Kauai (and the rest of the islands of Hawaii). They have a massive wild chicken population.