Oh, you edited your comment while I was writing my initial response to it.
There’s not actually any impractical ‘ideal-ness’ to it. We already can factor in animal preferences, because we already know them, because they reactively express their preference to not be in factory farms.
(Restating your position as this also seems dishonest to me; you’ve displayed awareness of animals’ preferences from the start, so you can’t believe that it’s intractable to consider them.)
We can infer their preferences not to suffer, but we can’t know what their “morality” is. I suspect chickens and most animals in general are very speciesist and probably selfish egoists who are partial to next-of-kin, but I don’t pretend to know this.
It’s getting late in my time zone, and I’m getting sleepy, so I may not reply right away to future comments.
Oh, you edited your comment while I was writing my initial response to it.
We can infer their preferences not to suffer, but we can’t know what their “morality” is. I suspect chickens and most animals in general are very speciesist and probably selfish egoists who are partial to next-of-kin, but I don’t pretend to know this.
It’s getting late in my time zone, and I’m getting sleepy, so I may not reply right away to future comments.
Agreed, I mean that just for this subject of factory farming, it’s tractable to know their preferences.