I love meat. These days I eat less and less pork, more fish and chicken. When I want red meat it's not usually a steak. I like cheaper cuts used in mexican food or just good old fashion roast.
I think about methods of production and it sucks. But food in general is getting so expensive that the "how" becomes an after thought if a thought at all. I need to feed my family and we try to not waste as much as possible and cook what we buy well.
But this got me thinking about how things were when I was a child. My family would get a calf, raise it with a name and then slaughter the poor thing. One day moo cow was there and the next we were having a huge BBQ. I don't know whats worse, thinking about how we get what we eat or giving it a name then chopping it up and eating it...
But this is kind of relative to the original subject of progress, progress for the sake of progress isn't always good. Raising anything in mass just creates issues. Antibiotics and so on.
I just looked up Meats on cruise lines and there was a story about how Carnival got rid of the porterhouse in the steakhouse on the ships. But what people are upset about is they can't get a 24 ounce chunk of dead cow now! WTF, who the hell needs to eat 1.5lbs of any meat in one sitting and be upset about it?
To much of anything is a bad thing I suppose, just eat more sensibly and don't take what you eat for granted. Maybe that cow, pig, chicken etc. lives will mean more if it isn't just for the sake of gluttony...?