" Species don't make choices, individuals do. And even if species somehow could, to imply
that they would select perpetuity over individual well-being is hard to apply more broadly. By this
logic, enslaving a group of humans is acceptable if the posed alternative were nonexistence.
(Instead of Live free or die, the motto we script for our food animals is Die enslaved but live.) "

― Jonathan Safran Foer , Eating Animals