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There are various laws on treatment of animals already. Ineffective and poorly adhered to, but there are.
Yet more important problem is how we make the most profit. Once there's notable grown-in-a-vat steak industry, you can be sure that the ethics of killing cows will be explained to you via fairly effective advertising. Especially if it costs somewhat more and consequently brings better income for same % markup.
I don't want to eat anything steaklike unless it came from a real, mooing, cow. I don't care how it's killed.
I'm worried I'm overestimating my resistance to advertising, so I'm hereby precommitting to this in writing.
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Precommiting is useful in many situations, one being where you want to make sure you do something in the future when you know something might change your mind. In Cialdini's "Influence," for instance, he discusses how saying in public "I am not going to smoke another cigarette" is helpful in quitting smoking.
The whole point is that I want to remove that freedom. I don't want the option of changing my mind.
Another classic example is the general who burned his ships upon landing so there would be no option to retreat, to make his soldiers fight harder.