What about the animals who are in captivity now?

The only one solution includes all the animals not just humans (see why nonhumans too in the FAQ and non-speciesist suffering in the article section). Therefore the animals in captivity will be included in the solution as well. But even if they will not be a part of the solution and only the human race will be annihilated, there isn’t much doubt that the fate of the captivated animals will be much better anyway. In that scenario unfortunately they might die from dehydration or hunger but as horrible as it is, it is still better than life in a factory farm. The aggressive and traumatic snatching from shed, loading into truck, transportation, violently forced into the slaughterhouse and the slaughter itself, probably cause more suffering than the suffering caused by dehydration.

If the only one solution idea won’t be carried out, the caged animals would stay in the cages anyway and continue to suffer from beating, humiliation, dehorning, number burning, starvation, rape, density, ear clipping, force feeding, castration, diseases, confinement, transport and slaughter. Everything is better than factory farming.

Do you really doubt that a death from hunger is better than a year in a battery cage? Than six years in a cow shed? Than ten years in a circus? Than 25 years in the premarin industry?

Even if you insist that many animals will endure more suffering in the cages after the human race will be gone than while they were here, we are talking about the present animals only. Every year the animal exploitation system creates 100 billion more animals to suffer from birth to death. The suffering that will be prevented after a few months only, will be much greater than the suffering of the present captivated animals.
In one year alone there are much more caged animals than there are in a certain moment. And all of them will never suffer. You will be saving the future sufferers.

The annihilation idea is for good. The above argument is relevant to one generation only and as we explained, even for that one generation it is better. What about the future generations?

Things are only getting worse. Animal consumption is growing rapidly and persistently. Every year more animals are being exploited. And it is not only a quantitative matter, every year the industry manages to make the exploitation more efficient on the expense of the animals’ broken bodies. The genetic invasion is getting more harmful and violent every year. Farm animals are already twisted freaks - born to be cripples.
The next generation will suffer more than the present and less than the one after it.
In the future, many more animals will suffer much more.

We hope that the process will cause as little suffering as possible.
But remember that no matter what the method is, if it causes suffering it will be for one generation only and then the suffering will be stopped forever. So even if your annihilation idea has a potential of causing a lot of suffering, there is no doubt that it is still worth it because nothing can be compared to the suffering amounts that a decision not to do it will cause.
Otherwise the suffering will never end. Generation after generation will be born to this decayed world as the new sufferers, only to become a steak, omelet, shoes, coat, hat, shampoo, pizza or an entertainment object.

If you are thinking that it is wrong to "sacrifice" (the captivated animals won’t be sacrificed because the annihilation idea is better for them, even if they stay in their cages as we explained earlier) a generation for the sake of all the creatures that will ever suffer on this planet, we ask you, don’t you think it is wrong to "sacrifice" all the creatures that will ever live for the sake of the perfection of your world view?
When you decide not to "sacrifice" the ones that will stay in the cages, you condemn trillions of sentient creatures to a life of suffering from birth to death.