Christian theologians believe that animals have no eternal soul. This might be one of the reasons why so many people by default are thinking about them as inferior to humans, as if they are not-beings. I feel the gravity of this thought on how I used to think of who my dog and other animals are.
For the first few hundred million years after their initial appearance on our planet, all brains were stuck in the permanent present, and most brains still are today. But not yours and not mine, because two or three million years ago our ancestors began a great escape from the here and now, and their getaway vehicle was a highly specialized mass of gray tissue, fragile, wrinkled, and appended. Via Stumbling on Happiness
Using data from the 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture ... it is estimated that 70.4 percent of cows, 98.3 percent of pigs, 99.8 percent of turkeys, 98.2 percent of chickens raised for eggs, and over 99.9 percent of chickens raised for meat are raised in factory farms.
How much hours an animal has to spend on the factory farm per food source?
"Eating certain types of meat may cause more suffering than eating the same amount of another type of meat under otherwise identical circumstances." If you want to approach veganism with the primary reason of reducing suffering, start by eliminating:
Here's a great table By [Brian Tomasik](https://www.facebook.com/brian.tomasik?__cft__[0]=AZW9YonyCb5VNMI6EHuGVGJybiiBfFw0B7xKkM2STCF5TPP2xcQRoujo1azH2QKWh_aDbJdZb2f2dKPhI6H35kWF-pLo-8VHi-f6sAKjzpuBULdQI5aUPuKnjxhTV29INakRLzjSEA8IFq78DqnGcXbm9CgyZi9sIic6bCAp7IJrUw&__tn__=-]K-R) explaining this link
Meat is inefficient – 9 calories in (in forms of crops), 1 colorie out (in form of chicken meat – the most efficient meat)