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I've wondered why, instead of trying to lab grow meat (which I think is decades off, due to various problems), we just don't try to breed dumber, unfeeling, cow
by kbelder 2y ago
I've wondered why, instead of trying to lab grow meat (which I think is decades off, due to various problems), we just don't try to breed dumber, unfeeling, cows.
- andy_ppp 2y ago“Breeding psychopathic cows seemed like a good idea until they took control” seems like a very weird comic book plot line or something :-)
- mrtksn 2y agoThat's something that I was also thinking about. Maybe because we can't fine tune cows stupid enough to not to feel remorse for slaughtering but intelligent enough to breed, eat, take care of the calfs? Probably, at scale, it's not viable to take care of animals who can't function independently.
- aziaziazi 2y agocan't help to think about Brave New World where they basically do that for inferior-cast humans. A great read. I recommend the sequel Brave New World Revisited Those looks like to be the full texts (didn't verify): https://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html https://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/ https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/