<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Some people will say that if they're extinct we can't exploit them, so that would be a good thing. I say that if they're extinct we can't eat them, so that would be a bad thing.</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Just eat the lab grown meat that will hopefully be plentiful in the future.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 3, 2023, at 9:02 AM, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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I had not considered that. Although it is entirely possible to
kill ones meat with little to no pain, I can see how they could be
related. What do these people have against farm animals? Our
livestock are, aside from us, ants, termites, and antarctic krill,
the most evolutionarily successful animals in the world. We are
doing their bloodlines a solid favor by eating them. Do they think
that feral cattle and chickens would just roam our cities?
Eliminating meat would likely cause the extinction of several
domestic farm animals in the long run.
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Quoting Tara Maya via extropy-chat <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" moz-do-not-send="true"><extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org></a>:
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It sounds like another way to starve humans, part of the war on
meat.
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Well, in our local park there are herds of wild venison, but on the
whole I agree. I've pointed that out many times to vegetarians and
extreme vegetarians in the past, but they seem to have a blind spot.
I suppose it's an interesting ethical question. Is it better to have
a large population of tasty food animals, many of which will lead
good and happy lives up to the point when they are suddenly killed
(I'm definitely opposed to battery farming and similar practices,
which lead to poor-qualilty food anyway), or to have a zero
population of tasty food animals because they're all extinct?<br class="">
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Some people will say that if they're extinct we can't exploit them,
so that would be a good thing. I say that if they're extinct we
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