You are under a delusion about the wilderness affording animals a better quality of life yes. Many people are under delusions (myself included) only a few are delusional. As for serpents in human flesh, everybody knows about them - its not a controversial statement.
As for your claim that keeping certain animals is inhumane, your arguing against agriculture in its entirety. Every species was wild until we decided to tame some and domesticate others. Why is it wrong to farm cows but not elk ? Why is wrong to tame wolves but not panthers ? Are domesticated animals an abomination to your mind ? Do you consider all farmed produce to be evil ? Why is it permissible to raise cows for meat and milk but not bison ? There is nothing wrong with farming animals or keeping them for whatever reason (be it for direct companionship or merely to appreciate them). There are allot of desperate people who need to make a living on BL, and im suggesting that farming is one option available to them (allot of options will be cut off to such people). Nor am i telling anyone to break the law, in fact raising pretty much any animal can be done legally in many parts of the world. The US seems to provide people with some measure of freedom in this regard. As for it being Gods plan, yes -to make a living from the earth and the fruits thereof is his original endowment to the man Adam. ''Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything'' - Genesis -9.3
Animal sacrifice (like circumcision), was a pre-existing pagan customs that he accepted, but consistently moved them away from.
''For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings'' - Hosea 6.6- ''Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.'' - Amos 5:22–23“For in the day that I Brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. Buy this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ But they did not obey…and went backwards and not forwards” - Jeremiah 7:22–24
''For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified? but in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year, for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight, then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered - then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish; in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once'' - Hebrews 10:1-10.
