Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
The main driver of, well, everything non-human species do is survival of their species. Deciding that their extinction is morally better than them having a shit life is just projecting.
In what sense? Because we know animals feel emotions, so surely not existing at all is better than having a dreadful life.

Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
Anthropomorphising much? The alternative is half the population starving to death, half of the rest eaten alive by predators and all of them being riddled with disease all the time. Animals on a micro and macro level are demonstrably better off if they're part of human agriculture.

Also, lol at 'being pumped full of harmful chemicals', think that one through for a minute.
That's not the alternative. The alternative is that the vast majority don't exist in the first place.