These free range animals are unlikely to fully subsist off the natural land. To feed them you need to buy or grow crops, which is another land use. It’s very hard to make an EA argument in favor of humans eating higher on the food chain than is necessary.
I think what may be missing from your analysis are different alternatives than the two you propose. For example, you’ve only considered using the land for free-range animals vs wild animals. You haven’t considered using it for plant based protein sources to feed humans. You haven’t considered using it as an animal sanctuary. And you haven’t considered ways to reduce the harms/suffering that come to wild animals on this land.
Nor have you considered the wider impact of expanding wild animals’ habitats by gifting them this land. What is the larger impact of the existence of farmed animals on this land for wild animals in nearby habitats?
And if they are raised and killed in these ways you deem “humane” then must their meat be used for humans? Is there a better use for it? For instance perhaps to feed wild carnivores? Or rescued carnivores? Is it really most efficient to use them to feed humans who have so many other choices?
These free range animals are unlikely to fully subsist off the natural land. To feed them you need to buy or grow crops, which is another land use. It’s very hard to make an EA argument in favor of humans eating higher on the food chain than is necessary.
I think what may be missing from your analysis are different alternatives than the two you propose. For example, you’ve only considered using the land for free-range animals vs wild animals. You haven’t considered using it for plant based protein sources to feed humans. You haven’t considered using it as an animal sanctuary. And you haven’t considered ways to reduce the harms/suffering that come to wild animals on this land.
Nor have you considered the wider impact of expanding wild animals’ habitats by gifting them this land. What is the larger impact of the existence of farmed animals on this land for wild animals in nearby habitats?
And if they are raised and killed in these ways you deem “humane” then must their meat be used for humans? Is there a better use for it? For instance perhaps to feed wild carnivores? Or rescued carnivores? Is it really most efficient to use them to feed humans who have so many other choices?