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ArisKatsaris comments on [link] SMBC on utilitarianism and vegatarianism. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 17 October 2011 12:40:21AM 7 points [-]

Would eating meat somehow become more moral if we were to genetically engineer beef into an almost unrecognizable form with zero neurons to kill?

Of course. Even as a meat-eater, I'd prefer if my meat-eating could somehow be made to not involve killing animals -- if we could grow meat-trees or something.