I’m completely against factory farming, confinement barns, etc and always avoid meat produced this way. But I do wonder what you mean when you say “cruelty” in

I’m completely against factory farming, confinement barns, etc and always avoid meat produced this way. But I do wonder what you mean when you say “cruelty” in the context of cattle. Having lived in/around rural livestock production most of my life, I can tell you that most cattle operations I am familiar with take excellent care of the their animals. Minimizing stress is absolutely a top goal for them. Pork, on the other hand, is almost always produced in a horrifying, cruel way. Confinement barns are terrible in every sense of the word. Pigs are treated without respect from cradle to grave.