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I kinda think if god made all the creatures and plants, saw them to be good and left us to tend to them, He probably wouldn't be too pleased about the factory farming.
Like, we're made in his image and given dominion over his creation, a microcosom of his dominion over everything. If he wanted pigs to live a life without turning around, he could have just... made them that way. Do we really interpret "dominion" as a way to OK total subjugation of the life below us? 'Cus I always thought of that more as... like, a groundskeeper/caretaker's dominion.
"Dominion" is already an interpretation. The word didn't exist back in the day and the translator had to choose it to interpret the original text.
I'm not a Christian, but while I was that is how I interpreted it. I was taught we were supposed to be good stewards of creation. I personally never saw a problem with things like slaughtering animals, but thought the conditions of most farms weren't acceptable. I never had to think about it enough to really draw a line about what ways to treat animals was okay and what wasn't, but things like stuffing as many animals as possible I to as little space as possible getting them as far as possible as quick as possible just felt like too much. I also believed things like rampant deforestation were wrong for the same reason. God didn't give us a free pass to treat the environment how we see fit.
I mean, neither am I anymore, but yeah.
In evolutionary terms, domestication was reciprocal. We see them safely into the world, protect them through life, and see them out. Both species benefit. Factory farming is a short-sighted violation of that; the animals lead miserable lives, the surrounding ecosystem (as well as any human habitation) suffers, and you couldn't design a better laboratory for new zoonotic plague if you tried.