I hate it when this topic comes up. I think most of us are silent hypocrites; we will buy meat at a supermarket, without thinking from where it came.
There is another element; if we were to have animals reared in lovely surroundings, well catered for, we wouldn't want to pay the price for the meat that it would then cost.
Basic line, we want meat, we want to pay as little for it as we can, and we don't want to think about the poor animals.
I was watching the televison (some time back), during a oiece of news about the Bird 'flu epidemic; I shuddered when I saw workers, carting off maybe six chickens, in each hand, held by crunching their feet together, when they were then thrown into a big pit.
The sad thing is that I like my meat; and even if I gave that up (which I could), what about fish, vegetables, nuts ? They all have life, reproduce, and die...........They deserve the same treatment as we would wish for ourselves.