Needs Excuse For Cause *Creates Advantageous Problem For Cause*

Question: There is a surplus of these animals that we eat, so why not take advantage of that fact?

Well, in short, I can say that the surplus is not a natural occurrence. We have removed ourselves from the food chain, and many of the extinctions and surpluses/over-populations are our fault, not nature's. Deer, for instance, are over-populated because we have killed natural predators like wolves. The case with farm animals is that there is only a surplus because those animals are bred specifically to be eaten. Without us, they would resume a normal population, additionally we would give other predators another food source, because as it is now, these animals, to are brought into the realm of exemption from the food chain; which also hinders evolutionary development. Its not exactly commonplace morality to create huge problems and then take advantage of those things. We don't destroy houses and say "well, there are no houses here, we may as well build that amusement park that we had no room for." So why do we create surpluses of animals and then use that as an excuse to eat them?

On that note, there is a human surplus, so we should probably get to eating them, since humans are animals too. the only difference there is the sentimental value.