Should factory farming be phased out within ten years?

There are 8 billion people on this planet, and the UN projects nearly 10 billion by 2050. Factory farming is ugly, but it is also the reason protein became affordable for the global middle class. The FAO's own data shows demand for animal products rising fastest in developing countries, where a cheap egg can be the difference between adequate nutrition and stunting in children. FAO. A ten-year phaseout in the US would not end industrial meat; it would offshore it to countries with weaker environmental and labor standards, exactly as we did with manufacturing. We would get to feel pure while the same farming happens elsewhere, dirtier. If the goal is less suffering and fewer emissions, fund the transition and the technology, but do not ban the system that feeds people before the alternative exists at scale.