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Viliam comments on Open thread, Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: PipFoweraker 19 January 2016 10:06:29PM 2 points [-]

I'm not certain if we need to understand how suffering works if we can simply remove the organs that house it.

It seems less tricky when a technological set of solutions come along that allow delicious engineered meat to be grown without all the unnecessary and un-delicious bits.

I think the in vitro meat industry will have an extraordinarily good time when things develop to the point of being able to synthesis a lazy-person's whole stuffed camel.

Comment author: Viliam 20 January 2016 11:37:07AM *  1 point [-]

In vitro meat -- okay.

Modifying animals so they can't scream -- not okay.

somehow breeding suffering out of animals

-- this is the part that IMHO depends on details we may not yet understand sufficiently.