> "a full, relatively pain free life" is not at all an accurate description of anything related to factory farming.

You understand that I'm not saying relative to your life, right, but to some other life in some other universe?

> Also, karma is not about judgment. It's about each individual's own state of consciousness.

It seems to be about your individual biases and judgement, actually.

I don't understand how some hypothetical life in some hypothetical other universe is at all a sensible barometer to measure the quality of a life against?

It seems much more sane to benchmark against the life we have and know here.

You are talking about animals that otherwise would not have been born. Therefore the only life you can theorize about is one unknown to us.