The ethics if factory farming

[The Grand Nudger]

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.

That's true, such is the situation with regards to biology on this planet. I don't know that meat in a vat will actually solve that problem - rather than shift it out of sight and out of mind. The fundamental issue with regards to food and death is that we require inputs from -somewhere- (food is just a system for storing and transferring energy, after all). Changing the middle step (cattle) won't necessarily alleviate any suffering or killing when viewed from a sufficient distance to see the system as a whole. The cows in question would probably sleep better at night, assuming that that's even possible, of course.

@Benny
Yeah, Rogan I can handle - it's just Salatin that grinds my gears (never fails- I'll be right there along with him and then he'll say something utterly and irreconcilably stupid - like all of us, obviously)....lol, no worries, was just a request.