The ethics if factory farming

[bennyboy]

The best option would be synthetic meat, real meat that is grown on a protein scaffold using stem cells. This would remove the need to kill animals and give the nutrition from meat.

This. As long as technology continues to improve, I see this as the way forward. Most likely, it would be cheaper and easier than current animal farming methods, removing the need to consider welfare.

Additionally, I think that current positions on the ethics of animal farming will be on of those things our descendants will look back on and consider inhumane. They may even laugh at our lack of sophistication.

The problem is that even if it has cow DNA (-ish), it's more likely to be "meat" than meat.