Are you against factory farming or against all animal use?

I grew up near a small sheep farm, and I'll be the first to tell you that those sheep were not suffering. They were outside most of the time, weather allowing, and they were mostly able to procure their own food out in the fields. The farmer, a friend of my granddad, would collect their wool and his wife would make fantastic clothing articles with it. Of course there is the fact they did slaughter the sheep eventually. My moral stance on eating animals should be fairly obvious, being that this is the vegan subreddit, but I still feel like that was the most humane way to do it. Let the sheep live out the majority of their lives in the field, taking good care of them and making sure they are in good health, and only slaughter them when they have grown old.

What I'm trying to say is that I don't condemn every farmer for raising livestock, but I do wish that all farmers could treat their animals like partners, and not like meat vegetables. I'd much rather have that couple's wool than cotton coming from dubious sources.

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