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Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't

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dr_dshiv · 1790246145 · focus · HN ↗
Would it make the meat industry more ethical if happy drugs were made available to animals? If I had to choose between a meaningful (even if I didn’t know it when living), blissful unnatural life and none at all, I’d choose the former.
It’s the negative affect and suffering (stress, pain, boredom etc) that is the bad part of eating animals.
(I think— I know others have thought more than I on this topic)
It just seems like an easier tech solution might be promising
1. amelius · 1790246791 · focus · HN ↗
  The problem is that the happy drugs will, in some detectable concentrations, end up in meat.
  (A smaller problem is that humans will start using the drugs if the distribution is not tightly controlled.)
  1. dr_dshiv · 1790404084 · focus · HN ↗
    Bonus, like all those tall Dutch kids from the milk hormones.

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