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Chickens raised in the Matrix

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Azraele said:
It's a living breathing creature. Butchering it so that it doesn't "feel" the horror of its life doesn't make it ok in my book.
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Considering their current situation is probably worse than the proposed one I don't see how you would propose something better that involves increasing production at the same time.
 
SKORPI0 said:
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http://www.ecorazzi.com/2012/02/16/architect-student-proposes-matrix-for-chickens/ D:
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Could you imagine a wall of Ribeye like that? That would probably be less disturbing that some partially functioning chicken.
 
CZroe said:
So, I take it that you are opposed to butchering a happy chicken to eat as well?
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This is the way I see it as well.

Face it, those chickens are going to be killed so that people can eat them. That's not a nice thing to do to any living thing, but it's what's going to happen. If it's considered semi-humane to do it at some point in their life, then it must be semi-humane to do it at an earlier point in their life as well, so long as they don't suffer any more. A brainless, but chemically functional body isn't a living being any more than a transplant liver lying on an operating table is.

It's not "a" chicken anymore. It's merely "some" chicken.
 
I thought that they were working on ways of synthesizing meat in a lab that didn't even require a living creature. Wouldn't that be more practical, let alone humane?
 
I can't get my brain wrapped around this. Not to mention, seems like a lot more work to cut the brains out of a million chickens, vs building a bigger pen.

As for production, if the meat just got more expensive, maybe people would eat less of it and it would help with our bulging belt sizes too.
 
Tsaico said:
I can't get my brain wrapped around this. Not to mention, seems like a lot more work to cut the brains out of a million chickens, vs building a bigger pen.

As for production, if the meat just got more expensive, maybe people would eat less of it and it would help with our bulging belt sizes too.
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Genetic engineering
 
CZroe said:
So, I take it that you are opposed to butchering a happy chicken to eat as well?
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I'm fine with giving them a good life before we eat them. Torture or butchering so they're not aware of the torture does not sit well with me.
 
If an intergalactic master race of chickens ever landed on earth and saw that, we would be in big trouble.
 
I didn't read the article or all the comments in full so maybe this is an old thought but...why not take it a step further and find a way to clone animals that don't have brains to begin with?

Notice I said clone, not breed, obviously this would not be a desirable trait to let escape into the wild animal population and the standard domesticated animal population.
 
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