Comment by AnodicElegy
3 hours ago
Quantitatively, yes, but some of the things allowed in pharmaceutical research are more horrible than anything in farming. I'm skeptical that we're any closer to replacing animal cruelty in pharmaceutical research than we are to doing so in meat production -- articles like this understate the difficulties -- but I hope I'm wrong.
On the contrary I would say. Animal welfare laws explicitly exclude farm animals, while animal scientific research at least requires an ethics panel review, etc. The types of farms in the US that house many many animals, and hence end up in the majority of the meat supply, often have a truly dire existence before death.