Most dairy cows don't have great lives either. And really, that is all we're trying to say, Flatcoatluver. Some of us who choose to keep meat as a part of our diets simply feel better that the animals we consume suffered as little as possible. Every animal that I raise for my table is one less animal doomed to the stockyard, slaughterhouse, meat factory, etc. You may still see it as sick and wrong b/c we don't choose to be vegetarians like you, but at least we're a more responsible breed of carnivore.