but why make animals suffer for our entertainment?
So which one is it? You are arguing both sides of the issue.
And, of course, should we eat animals?
I’m OK with keeping already domesticated animals and eating their products as long as they don’t suffer. The suffering their wild ancestors endured has already been done and cannot be erased. It took an untold amount of forced breeding and culling to create the domestic animals we have today.
I’m even OK with domesticating new animals for doing WORK when existing domesticated animals cannot do the job. i.e. bomb sniffing, search/rescue, etc
*BUT* I don’t agree with making generations of new animals suffer so their lives can be used purely as entertainment. It’s unnecessary and we have enough entertainment on this planet without making living things suffer...