I get the ethics of that concept. however… it is a tool we can use?
Horror level sci fi thought experiment that has no material relevance, only an abstract though experiment.
let’s say I use artificial selection to breed intelligent animals that will consent (yhea, far fetched, but it’s a thought experiment so let’s accept that premise). you might point that consent ends when the breeding program began, but all I had to do is take away candidates that aren’t good from the breeding pool and let them breed freely. That as consentual as wildlife breeding gets.
The creature offers Zaphod and his party his shoulder, braised in a white wine sauce, then goes on to offer other parts of its body, having worked hard to fatten itself up through force-feeding itself for months. Eventually, after Arthur and Trillian have expressed their shock and Ford has expressed his disinterest, Zaphod requests four rare steaks and the Dish of the Day goes off to shoot himself, telling Arthur not to worry, as he says “I’ll be very humane.”
I get the ethics of that concept. however… it is a tool we can use?
Horror level sci fi thought experiment that has no material relevance, only an abstract though experiment.
let’s say I use artificial selection to breed intelligent animals that will consent (yhea, far fetched, but it’s a thought experiment so let’s accept that premise). you might point that consent ends when the breeding program began, but all I had to do is take away candidates that aren’t good from the breeding pool and let them breed freely. That as consentual as wildlife breeding gets.
would eating the meat of those animals be vegan?
fuck there’s a Rick and Morty episode about that.
Or comedy-level sci-fi.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ameglian_Major_Cow
A better middle ground: graft genetically modified pork onto a human for like a day.
OR… Find people losing weight from ozempic and have them get surgery to remove excess skin. Sell it as “lab-grown meat.”