Economics of farms

Perhaps humans have no sadistic need to harm animals for the sake of it. It’s just that economics dictates how we keep them whilst alive and how we bring them to their deaths. We do what we have to do, to get what we want from them, without spending too much money on them. Since the world is a very competitive place, it all has to be low cost. Those with the least morals set the standards. For example, eggs. Cage-eggs are cheap, so every egg farmer in the world must cage their hens or go out of business. It’s the same with all commodities. If milk is cheaper to ship in from Singapore, then will come from there … and Australian dairy farmers eat your heart out!
To get milk (her milk) and sell it for a profit (our profit) a cow must be cheap to produce and cheap to keep. Oceans of milk are made at minimum cost. Rivers of milk supply maximum numbers of consumers.
If this is how milk works then it’s the same for all farmed-animal produce. We want it so they must die for it.
It’s unusual, the idea of being compassionate enough to not want it. It’s impossible to imagine, this idea of refusing to be the cause of harm to these animals. In our culture we are so used to animal products that to voluntarily deny ourselves of them seems absurd. In our culture, the enjoyment of food is everything, especially if we think animal cuisine is an art form. The enjoyment of animal food is greater still if we think it makes us strong. It’s unimaginable to see the need to reverse all this (on the basis that these products are unhealthy represent human cruelty).
And likewise, omnivores can’t imagine animal products being satisfactorily replaced by plant-based products. They just don’t believe it’s possible. And because they can’t imagine it (whereas of course vegans can) they continue to demand these products. They consequently deprive animals of their lives.