Regarding Aviva Bechky's article "Sonoma loves its farms. Activists call them factories. Could a ballot measure upend this county?"

I don't blame Mike Weber for doing what we've normalized--treating farm animals as a commodity--and he at least gives some of his chickens some chance to follow their instincts.  That may be true of his dairy cows too.  I doubt that Proposition J will pass in Sonoma because animal-eaters choose to ignore how sentient beings suffer if the sentient beings aren't human or the animals they've chosen as pets. I believe that someday we'll look back in horror at factory farms, but that probably won't come about because of concern for animals.  It will probably be for environmental reasons.  Instead of the government's subsidizing the products from factory farms, they'll start educating people on the atrocities involved and the environmental damage done.  

Even people who consider themselves progressive are resistant to change when it comes to their eating habits.  But paying taxes in the US, we're funding animal agriculture.  For every $100 we pay in taxes, about 50 cents goes directly to funding factory farming,  a cruel, unhealthy practice.  

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/sonoma-farms-measure-j-19607917.php