I don’t think you can call it a compassion when you own an animal with sole purpose of efficiently growing it and then killing it so its body can be dismembered and sold off. This is treating animals as property, that produces profit.
Why wouldn't they? Animals definitely have moral sense. Monkey for example react violently to social injustice against them. Animals also take compassionate actions that bring them no benefit or even incur cost. Straightly moral act.
Raising animals compassionately, slaughtering them for meat as painlessly as possible after a healthy, happy life
OR
Letting people who require meat in their diet to live (there are a number of reasons this may be the case) die slow, painful deaths as their bodies fail around them?
It's real easy to say that "no one should ever kill an animal to live" when you ignore the disabilities and chronic conditions that make surviving on plants alone impossible, or prohibitively expensive.
I don’t think you can call it a compassion when you own an animal with sole purpose of efficiently growing it and then killing it so its body can be dismembered and sold off. This is treating animals as property, that produces profit.