I agree with this. Less meat and better treatment of animals.
I spent a lot of time on small farms as a kid, people gave names to their livestock, they’d give them space, worry about the heat, they rub their animals fur, no one was allowed to stress or beat animals. They would get angry if one mistreated the animals “would you like to be treated like that ?”, the farmers thought about the family and relationships of their animals, as much as they could. The mama, the sister, the son. They needed their personal space.
You had to treat them well before eating them, they weren’t supposed to see a knife and the other animals were not supposed to see the slaughter, it would be emotional torture.
Industrial meat grinders are disgusting, it’s barbaric and gives you bad quality meat.
Less meat and higher quality, sure.
BUT… I think we have way more important issues than the wellbeing of animals these days. I think it’s distracting us from more urgent problems and human suffering. In terms of priorities, this is at the bottom of my list.
Making animals suffer is low IQ, uncivilized behavior. But I won’t put a chicken or a cow above a human life. Never. Call me an humanist if you want, but I say we have bigger issues.
Like honestly, if you can either save a human baby or a baby chicken and you hesitate because both have the same value. To me there is something really wrong with you and I find it disgusting when pets in rich countries have more medical treatments than humans in poor countries.