The ability to increase animals' output and size is evidence that we could breed them not to feel pain or psychological suffering. In fact, there's not really a good reason why we couldn't make them prefer conditions that normal animals would hate. This might be a feasible alternative to laboratory meat. The amount of suffering reduced would be enormous as you indicate here. This is a moral tragedy.
I did some lambing on a school trip a while back, was really fun, got to castrate a lamb using the described rubber band technique, was harder than it sounds to get both balls in the band, he didn't sound very happy when I did. First thing I did when I came back was have some lamb chops.
So, this article https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/11/acc-is-eating-meat-a-net-harm/ convinced me that drinking milk is probably not that bad and might even be net positive. What do you all think. I guess I was engaging in motivated reasoning, because I really like milk and i should probably be fully vegan again right?
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The ability to increase animals' output and size is evidence that we could breed them not to feel pain or psychological suffering. In fact, there's not really a good reason why we couldn't make them prefer conditions that normal animals would hate. This might be a feasible alternative to laboratory meat. The amount of suffering reduced would be enormous as you indicate here. This is a moral tragedy.
I did some lambing on a school trip a while back, was really fun, got to castrate a lamb using the described rubber band technique, was harder than it sounds to get both balls in the band, he didn't sound very happy when I did. First thing I did when I came back was have some lamb chops.
So, this article https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/11/acc-is-eating-meat-a-net-harm/ convinced me that drinking milk is probably not that bad and might even be net positive. What do you all think. I guess I was engaging in motivated reasoning, because I really like milk and i should probably be fully vegan again right?