Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
I think it's clear that there is no moral disadvantage, but would you rather that there had been an animal which had had a life..?

It's the choice between an animal having existed, and an animal not having existed. Which do you choose?

Surely you'd rather choose that the animal had existed, and had a life?
Why would anyone surely choose that? One of the worst aspects of industrial animal agriculture is that we summon so many beings into lives of torment. It would absolutely be better if we were turning less of the earth into miserable pigs.