Full Idea
Sheep and beef cattle live a quiet and comfortable life among their companions, and are despatched in ways which human beings, if they are rational, must surely envy.
Gist of Idea
Sheep and cattle live comfortable lives, and die an enviably easy death
Source
Roger Scruton (Animal Rights and Wrongs [1996], p.81)
Book Reference
Scruton,Roger: 'Animal Rights and Wrongs' [Demos 1996], p.81
A Reaction
No rational person could envy a premature death, and we don't wait for cattle to be old before eating them. A quick death is little consolation for being murdered, and many people would prefer a slower death (without agony, of course).