yes! 100% yes, and providing them with natural conditions, as pastures so they can grace outdoors. 👍

Cognitive dissonance at its finest

The issue is that they are killed before they would naturally die, the way animals are killed even in "cruelty free" companies, the insemination of dairy cows.

My kids love petting the cows, giving them treats, and eating hamburgers when we visit my dad's ranch.

Having no issue is the meat paradox. We want cows to be treated well, and we also want to kill and eat them before their second birthday, the paradox is that.

I see a problem when we teach our children to be friends with animals and then eat them.Ya'll eating your friends? Seriously?

Happy cow - tasty burger!

A friend had a small farm. She named one pig "Porkchop Jr." and a Black Angus "Hamburger the Third." I never asked about her chickens.

Animals shouldn't be eaten in the amounts we do today. Until meat can artificially be created in a lab, people seriously need to reconsider their habits, it's honestly disgusting and I'm not even vegan

How do we know which ones he meant for us to eat? Was is lack of cuteness?

Wrong on every level it touches. First of all, god neither did nor can allow cruelty of any means. After all, a god that allows more cruelty than what we can get rid of, can't really be any kind of superior, let alone be considered as qualified to rule over us. Second, no belief can allow anything if there is no sufficient secular reasoning allowing the very same thing under the very same, very real and nonheavenly conditions we have to deal with in reality. Your belief is a private issue, and does not entitle you to anything that not any- and everybody is entitled to anyway, too. Third, there are no amino acids in any animal product that are truly essential. Have to admit, meeting the absolute optimum is harder with every source that isn't used, but we live in a time of vast oversupply anyway - any form of diet, regardless of the reasoning behind it, that not systematically, on the level of molecules, not molecule sources, rules out an entire class of substances is any dangerous, quite the opposite, we've been facing hunger and the threat thereof the most time of our evolution, it was quite yesterday this ended, symbolically dated. Sufficient nutrition is something you have to avoid with extreme stupidity and/or purpose. This wasn't true for ANY part of the world until the age of industrialization, maybe earlier, it was for Kings and such, but on the expense of the poor, of course. As always. Anyway, just no. Not a single point of it stands, they're just not true. I guess I can't accuse you of lying, but of believing something BECAUSE it supports habits, and because belief is something you learned to value, or even take pride in. Well ... as above, private issue ... but a private issue that doesn't really aid in navigating through a world of facts that don't give any letters, let alone Fs...