This is a complex subject. There is no doubt that meat raised under better conditions tastes better and is likely healthier to consume. There is also no doubt that the majority of the world would no longer be able to afford meat as a regular part of their diet if all of these rules became a national and regular part of meat production.
How many people in America, let alone other countries, are going to be able to afford $20.00 per pound bacon on the table every day? What about $45.00 per pound for strip steak? Whole chickens at $25.00?
In Europe, salmon is a mainstay. The result has been salmon farming that produces a very unhealthy and horrible tasting farm raised product that is destroying the wild salmon in the North Atlantic. It is all about what people can, or are willing, to pay to satisfy their cravings for meat.
If less people eat meat, the price will go down for a short time but then we will lose producers and prices will go back up while the "progressives" will find more fertile ground to lobby about cow farts as a greenhouse gas and the socialist view that if all of us ate beans and we gave up the inefficient use of resources to produce meat, there would be enough food for everyone.
People eat what they can afford for the most part. My chicken (and eggs) is almost always free range and antibiotic free but it costs 3-4 times what it would cost at a supermarket for the usual offerings. My beef is hormone free and is fed a specific diet. While most people contributing here can likely afford this at least some of the time if not regularly, much of the world can never afford these prices so meat comes off the plate.
Careful and logic driven consideration of this topic is complicated.
