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I think there is a way to create 'ethical' meat through giving animals good lives and having laws around the ages they can be killed, etc.
However I don't think it's possible due to the costs and land required to do this, so unfortunately, I don't think there is any ethical way to produce meat these days. The most ethical is probably hunting to prevent overpopulation.
The amount of meat people want to eat necessitates factory farming and that is a great breeding ground for animal-borne disease. Meat also concentrates heavy metals in the animal's diet. The quantity of meat consumption is making us sick.
Even if humans reduced their meat consumption drastically it would be even more inefficient to produce meat ethically -- either that, or the prices of meat would rise astronomically which is probably a good thing, making it more of a luxury item.
Hot take, people who hunt and garden are far more ethical eaters than vegans who are bound to industrial food systems.
I don't know, a lot of vegans also garden and also, are vastly more aware of the industrial food systems and purposefully avoid unethical food sources.
It would be fair to say, more ethical than some vegans, some that are 'low effort' that just look out for vegan food and sometimes eat nothing but processed foods. But if you follow vegan influencers, many of them are so knowledgeable of the food systems that they buy from that implying they are unethical is just plainly wrong.