Today, more than ever before, our pets are treated as a part of the family. We feed them specially developed diets, provide them with memory-foam beds and lavish them with expensive treats. The quality of life of these pampered creatures is far better than that of many human beings.
The animals we share our homes with have a very different experience to the ones we breed to consume. Their lives are mostly nasty, brutish and short. But we block our ears and eyes to the realities of factory farming because it's easier that way.
We get to have our meat, and eat it too.