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See, that's probably the most reasonable argument I've heard in an online post.
There are also some good tips here about being more ethical in your meat purchases (essentially, avoid over purchasing and wasting meat, learn your labels to avoid cruel producers, if you have the luxury buy from local farms) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVfTPaxRwk
I feel like this is insanely hard to do this right, since the treatment of the animals is never made transparent. Even if you only buy animal products from local farms, how do you know the actual living conditions? You'd have to visit the farms and the slaughterhouses yourself, and even then you wouldn't see all the stuff, like how the workers really treat the animals day to day and which procedures the animals go through, how they are separated after birth and so on. To get a fair, unbiased impression, you'd need to work there for some time, for every farm you buy from.
For food from normal restaurants (which aren't $100 per meal), the employees have no idea where the animal products come from, and if they have to compete with the prices of other restaurants, well, it's all factory farmed anyway or they would already be out of business.
Just buying the plant-based burger or whatever is just so much more practical than trying to be a conscientious meat eater in a world where you're not supposed to ask any questions about how products were made. If you try to get some real transparency, the odds are stacked against you, and the industry will make sure to keep it that way. They'll just push for some labels that make people feel good and that can be used for marketing, but don't actually tell you much, and they know that's good enough for most people.