You said “Yes there are a lot of methods that I don’t agree with either…”
Doesn’t that answer your question? Animals are tortured from nascence till
departure from this world to the next.
Nope. There are also a lot of practices that parents do (or don’t do) while raising them but that doesn’t make them abusive or horrible parents. So while I don’t buy veal I’m not anywhere near to saying that eating meat is bad or that we should discontinue it’s use. (I will be honest, veal is a personal thing for me that I have chosen but at the same time I kind of get it too. Meaning, cows of which have many purposes in this world, one of which is their use of meat for food. Veal is incredibly delcious and the only way to get such results is to restrict the baby cow from moving it’s entire life. So for myself I think that this is not a nice way to treat an animal and decided not to spend on money on veal to promote this particular form of raising animals. I don’t need the meat and live a very comfortable existance eating the many other forms of meat and poultry. However, while it bothers me that this is the only way to produce veal I have yet to see complete proof that this is Tzar Ba’ali Chaim. After all this cow’s purpose was to wind up as a delecacy on someone’s plate and when done it’s fulfilling it’s tafkid. So who are we to say that this is wrong. It’s an animal. It doesn’t have the same sort of rights or expectations that we humans get.)
Next animals in general. I have been to many farms and slaughter houses and I’m not bothered one bit about the conditions. Many (of not most) of the cows sent for meat have lived thier prime as old milking cows. They have lived on a farm with plany of food and water (something that animals don’t always have in nature with the droughts we have had recently). They have heated shelters so that they don’t freeze, and for those who know cows, they pretty much don’t do all that much except eat. I’ve never seen an animal suffering and for the most part the farm wants to keep the meat healthy so it can turn over the biggest profit.
The same thing for chicken and as far as fish, it’s just a matter of catching them.
So I don’t see things being pretty bad.