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To end factory farming, start eating goats

But wouldn't this, eventually, just lead to the factory farming of goats?

Yes. People think you can't do factory farming of goats because current goat breeds do not tolerate confinement and simply get sick and die. This used to be true of hog breeds as well, but people purpose bred for animals that can withstand confinement. That's one of the primary reasons modern pork has no flavor, we stopped breeding animals that taste good and just worried about breeding ones that survive the industrial process. The same would inevitably happen with goats.

> we stopped breeding animals that taste good and just worried about breeding ones that survive the industrial process.

Exactly, and further proof of your point is that the exact same process has happened to vegetables: they're bred to be transportable and sale-able for a long period of time; not to be excellent. Tomatoes are the perfect example. Most tomatoes that you can buy from a grocery store are really not worth eating. Compare them to a actually ripe summer tomato from a neighbor's garden, and they may as well be different substances.

Commodification turns things mediocre almost by definition.

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