The conditions are not any better for the chicken, lamb or fish that make our mouths water. Because of the tight confinement of animals, disease is easily spread among them, so antibiotics are introduced. When we later eat these animals we are also ingesting these antibiotics. The food industry, like any other business, has a product to sell and the more product they can move the more money they'll make. Factory farms where the animals are processed want to induce growth so that they can fatten their animals up sooner and sell them.
People eat meat because their taste buds crave it.
As a final word on our love of meat, I'll offer you Peter Burwash's description of where two of America's favorite foods, the hamburger and hot dog come from as they appear in Total Health. If you ever saw a hamburger or hot dog being made from start to finish, only the most hardened of individuals would allow it to their lips. What makes the hamburger and hot dog such a risk is that bits and pieces of many cows go into it. The food is altered and devitalized. Nearly every vital element is removed, eliminated or destroyed.