SoullessAutomaton comments on Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices - Less Wrong
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I don't agree with the premise of the first position, but I agree wholeheartedly with the second (well, replacing "pain receptors" with a complete rework of the mammalian brain and nervous system, since just removing pain receptors is a very limited kind of alleviation of suffering. After all, I could remove your literal pain receptors and lock you in a 6x6 cell for your whole life, and you'd still be suffering.)
I hope now you'll never again have to say it's a position never taken by any vegetarian.
As an aside, what you're describing here would be (to my mind) ethically indistinguishable from vat-grown meat.