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It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animalssuffer greatly. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raiseanimals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. It's cruel. No argument here.
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