#and we ALSO got children's rights out of animal roghts activism

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Poor people cannot afford an ethics tax, and ethical farming becomes a lot more affordable when everyone is doing it.

Free market doesn't do ethical things. It hides the unethical things. We only even have food safety standards because a man tried to expose the animal cruelty and accidentally exposed how unhygienic butchering was at the time in the process.

They wouldn't have bothered to fix it alone because if they're all doing it, there's no better alternatives!

A problem now solved by charging extra for any kind of ethical consideration like "animal has seen sunlight once or twice".

As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.