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It looks a lot less like "cognitive dissonance" and more like "bad faith arguments from fossil fuel industry-linked groups" when you dig a bit.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds

> A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 5.18 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects.

The alternative to domesticated animal use isn’t happy cows prancing through the prairies, it’s the extinction of those species.

Yes, factory farming is awful. But a pasture raised cow has a pretty nice cow life all things considered. Sure it comes to an abrupt end and becomes food, but so what? Coming to an abrupt end and becoming food is the fate of all living things. There’s no avoiding it.

The pasture raised cow with a nice life is an extremely rare species.

Almost every cow used to extract milk and meat in industrial farming - which is most of them in the west - is living in deprivation, agony and pain.

People care a lot about wildlife in many contexts, while ignoring factory farming.