As most farmers and real outdoors-men know, domestic animals generally have a higher quality of life and longer life expediencies than their wild counterparts. The norm in nature is death in infancy by starvation or illness. No one is crueler than Mother Nature.
So animal cruelty is a-okay by you?
Also, animals might tend to have longer lifespans in zoos than in nature, but that is often not so on modern farms. Meanwhile, the conditions that many farm animals are kept in for their there-short lives don’t provide nearly the quality of life their forebears would have had in nature.