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Re: Flesh eaters stole my brain (was Re: Why is cockfighting bad?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:55:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Here's one place... I agree with Chris that I'd rather not have to be in the
> biz of raising animals to eat them. He'd rather we didn't eat meat, I'd rather
> we got our meat from vats (the tissue cultures are, in a sense, animals with
> no brains).
Here's an odd twist to think about: most (all?) domesticated animals,
especially farm animals, are sufficiently different from their wild
bretheren that they can be considered separate species.
Also, if we can raise meat in a vat, we can presumably raise other useful
animal products in a vat.
If we start getting all our animal products from vats, there will no longer
be a need for the source animals. So the numbers of those types of animals
will decrease. And they will possibly become extinct.
If domestic cattle become endangered, will we be required to protect them
from extinction?
Steve
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