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I gonna intercept here for a bit. The Problem with "shutting down single farms" is, that this virtually has no effect at all. The entire conventional farming sector is quite fucked up. Everything gets optimised for the highest possible efficiency. This means, that everything that falls out of set norms will be eliminated.
What I mean by this is, that, as example, piglins that didnt grow that well are simply killed by the farmers, because they can't be sold. This happens because no farmer will give you the same money for a piglin that has half the weight of the others and is much more likely to get targeted by the rest of the group. Since its illegal to kill piglins without a reason the farmers do it by themselves and then dispose them with the piglins that die when during, or shortly after, birth. Nobody notices, and it is not possible to control this (at least not realistically). The problem is, that this whole system so fucked up that by shutting down single farms you only combat symptoms of the system and not the root cause. By this I do not want to say, that we have to shut down the entire animal farming sector, but that we have to drastically reduce the intensity of the sector to shift production to quality instead of quantity.
Source for the stuff I said: I grew up on a farm (not with piglins) and had to work in a piglin farm for 4 weeks. I have seen the stuff I said first hand and I devinetively did stuff that I'm now deeply ashamed of retrospect. The stuff I saw also matches the tuff I have heard from other sources.
It would save the animals you claim are being boiled alive. Why don't you care about the suffering of these animals?
Did you even read my comment? I clearly explained that shutting down single farms does not change the system, since the system in itself is broken.