The Industrial Revolution reduced slavery's necessity enough for abolition. The lab-meat revolution will do the same for animal slaughter. Where ethics alone failed, easy access to lab-grown KFC will give us the moral courage to view factory farming as the nightmarish evil it is.
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Define factory farming.
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agreed. Factory ranching has not and cannot be done ethically.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I agree factory farming is destructive but the idea that synthetically produced foods will displace destructive corporate practices by eliminating livestock ag is untenable. The food shed is built on the exigencies of the biosphere. Synthetic solutions lead to synthetic problems.
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I'm also not a big fan of lab meat. But veganism is not an "illusion." Vegans eat "organisms" too - they're just flora not fauna. Alas, because our culture is techno-solutionist, and has trained people to desire certain foods, lab meat may be key bridge to reduce meat consumption
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"Factory farming is not a natural part of the ecosystem, though." That is the whole point of factory farming, to not be part of the ecosystem. "It is in fact severely detrimental to the environment." As opposed to being farmed to extinction otherwise? Sloppy.
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Thread begins w/ the idea that lab grown meat will give us the courage to divest from livestock agriculture. This tweet diverts to the issue of factory farming. I think most metropolitans know that nutrition & agriculture can't be artificially engineered w/ synthetic substitutes.
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