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by guerrilla 23 days ago
The future is getting creepier by the day. You know this'll be used in food farming.
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Why? The current method is cheap.
Hopefully it changes. Male baby chicks are thrown into grinders. It’s horrendous
At least animals getting ground up live is a horror as old as time. We seem to always be moving in the other direction and creating more new horrors instead of making things better.
I agree we should focus more on reviving ancient horrors.
Agreed. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn: there's a reason it's a classic.
The complete omittance of even acknowledging we have invented modern animal horrors far worse to work on first makes it sound like we just need to do better than other animals. Willfully ignoring that to act like doing so is a form of agreement between the statements is a bit gruesome itself.

I'm glad you want to handle some of the problem, but let's not act like we just need to do better than other animals is all to discuss. It's easy enough to agree with the full problem unless you're fine with the other parts.

like draw and quarter?
Creating a food system that is more cruel to animals than what we already have is a very high bar. Not that I doubt we can clear it.
Is that a problem?
If you consider factory farming horrific, then yes
Factory farming refers to a wide set of practices that range from loathsome to banal.

I don't see how the use of this technology makes factory farming any worse than it already is. Maybe it saves male chicks from the shredder, making it slightly less loathsome.

We already have Soylent