The animals we farm are so far from what existed in nature due to selective breeding and other practices meant to increase yield that ceding them to nature is no longer a humane option.
Culling or sterilizing them would be sad, but the guilt wouldn't come from ending the cycle, it would come from having created it in the first place.
The goal isn't to minimize the suffering of all animals in the world, lowering some kind of 'net suffering' score. Vegans don't walk around scolding wolves and lions for being so immoral (ok, some do, but I think they're as nuts as you do). It's about choosing not to be the cause of suffering to others since we have the mental capacity to identify and stop it.
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