> Cows are treated very well in all the ranches I've been on.
The ones with horrible practices do not allow visitors or even cameras. While it is possible to source all your meat from happy places, statistically almost nobody does.
> We estimate that 99% of US farmed animals are living in factory farms at present. By species, we estimate that 70.4% of cows, 98.3% of pigs, 99.8% of turkeys, 98.2% of chickens raised for eggs, and over 99.9% of chickens raised for meat are living in factory farms.
The ones with horrible practices do not allow visitors or even cameras. While it is possible to source all your meat from happy places, statistically almost nobody does.