Definitely agree, there's a much deeper discussion to be had here about how animals are treated and commodified by basically all developed societies. We have really moved past the need for meat (something that made more sense when the pastures were natural and smoking could preserve enough calories to last a winter before refrigeration).

When animals are no longer a necessary source of calories to survive in less fertile climates due to massive increases in agricultural output, there's no conceivable reason to continue their exploitation. However, under the current mode of production, with the political power gained by the ranching class (in America, a direct result of Manifest Destiny and exploitation of native populations of humans and animals), the narrative can never be allowed to enter the realm of sanity.

There must always be diversion from the systemic powers that create and perpetuate the massively inefficient and unethical meat industry because we can never question it. Only question the ethics of individual "consumers" who interact with that system for which no alternative has been allowed to be built.