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That's nothing. Here's the latest, world's most advanced disease incubator. Courtesy of China of course. [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/

That's nothing. Here's the latest, world's most advanced disease incubator. Courtesy of China of course. [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-ready-to-produce-1-million-pigs-a-year https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-2...

AlexandrB 4y ago
Doesn't seem any worse than "battery cages" for chickens. Not that either setup is good for the animals. What's the solution though? Either people need to eat less meat (and pay more for it) or the global human population needs to stabilize or even decrease a little. Neither option seems popular, so technology fills the need.
- jimnotgym 4y ago
  The developed world is really doing its bit here. We have stopped breeding humans at a sustainable rate and are looking at falling populations in the near future as the boomers age-out
- barbazoo 4y ago
  Or stop eating meat altogether. Problem of unsustainable and cruel meat production solved.
piyh 4y ago
Those pig barns look about the same as the ones in Iowa. Only difference is one is in a high rise.
MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
>Workers will be required to go through multiple rounds of disinfection and testing before being given clearance to enter, and won’t be able to leave the site until their next break – reportedly once a week. I can't imagine living and working for weeks at a time in an environment like that,it sounds awfully dystopian. Imagine a cyberpunk future where the lower casts are permanent sequestered from society because they've been quarantined.
- 908B64B197 4y ago
  They can leave at any time. It's just that their social credit score will go to 0.
- j_not_j 4y ago
  There is a movie you may want to watch. "Andromeda Strain", directed by Robert Wise, 1971. The sequence where the specialists are "sterilized" before entering the most secure levels of the lab are best. Robot voice: "Please enter the chamber and be sterilized." Dr Leavitt (played by Kate Reid): "I'd rather be decontaminated."

AlexandrB 4y ago

Doesn't seem any worse than "battery cages" for chickens. Not that either setup is good for the animals. What's the solution though? Either people need to eat less meat (and pay more for it) or the global human population needs to stabilize or even decrease a little. Neither option seems popular, so technology fills the need.

jimnotgym 4y ago
The developed world is really doing its bit here. We have stopped breeding humans at a sustainable rate and are looking at falling populations in the near future as the boomers age-out
barbazoo 4y ago
Or stop eating meat altogether. Problem of unsustainable and cruel meat production solved.

piyh 4y ago

Those pig barns look about the same as the ones in Iowa. Only difference is one is in a high rise.

MonkeyMalarky 4y ago

>Workers will be required to go through multiple rounds of disinfection and testing before being given clearance to enter, and won’t be able to leave the site until their next break – reportedly once a week. I can't imagine living and working for weeks at a time in an environment like that,it sounds awfully dystopian. Imagine a cyberpunk future where the lower casts are permanent sequestered from society because they've been quarantined.

908B64B197 4y ago
They can leave at any time. It's just that their social credit score will go to 0.
j_not_j 4y ago
There is a movie you may want to watch. "Andromeda Strain", directed by Robert Wise, 1971. The sequence where the specialists are "sterilized" before entering the most secure levels of the lab are best. Robot voice: "Please enter the chamber and be sterilized." Dr Leavitt (played by Kate Reid): "I'd rather be decontaminated."