dh@. wrote:
> · Since the animals we raise for food would not be alive

and would neither know it, nor care...

> if we didn't raise them for that purpose, it's a distortion of
> reality not to take that fact into consideration whenever
> we think about the fact that the animals are going to be
> killed. The animals are not being cheated out of any part
> of their life by being raised for food, but instead they are
> experiencing whatever life they get as a result of it. ·

Say, how's that extra brother of yours, "Luke", that was never born? I
imagine he'll be impatiently waiting, forever, that's just awful.

You distort reality by looking at future existence as the starting point,
then coming back in time to the present and claiming that those
non-existent farm animals deserve whatever pathetic life may be coming
their way, and that they should thank you for it as they're being butchered.

And your parents were horrible people for treating Luke that way.