The ethics if factory farming

[Ben Davis]

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.

Which current positions? The pastured position or the feedlot? Livestock management always gets painted with such a wide brush in these threads. Pretty sure a guy like Joel Salatin would embarrass the shit out of anyone who wanted to give him guff about ethics.

All current methods result in the same end - we have to kill a conscious animal for food. Once we can grow 'unconscious' meat-in-a-vat, we can completely remove the need for killing from the meat farming process. So I see it as only a matter of time before the paradigm changes and we consider the killing of animals for food as unjustified.