The sustainability aspects of animal production are complex, and aligning multiple objectives related to it is challenging. Public discussion related to animal agriculture is strongly dualistic: Prevailing strategies for more sustainable animal production are mainly aiming at increasing the efficiency of production processes. At the same time, others are criticising the consumption of animal-derived foods, and these two extremes, efficiency and sufficiency, hardly understand each other. An emerging strategy, consistency, which in the agricultural context is close to agroecology and regenerative agriculture, emphasises the integration of animal agriculture into the socio-ecological environment. Consistency also addresses dimensions undercommunicated by efficiency and sufficiency, such as food security. In this conceptual article these strategic approaches to sustainability are identified, reflected against socio-environmental and agronomic literature, and critically examined from a Nordic perspective. Each of these strategies provide different solutions for improving the sustainability of animal agriculture. It is argued that to successfully reorient animal agriculture towards a sustainable and resilient future, efficiency, sufficiency, and consistency strategies should be considered as mutually complementary.