Nice post! One intervention could be specifically arguing against including factory farming in space colonization plans. But methods and the tone for doing that might have to be very different from what animal advocates mostly use now. We’d have to be very careful and strategic about how we do that because doing it badly would make future efforts much more difficult. We could also fund and encourage research how to colonize space without animal farming.
If they get good at factory farming in space colonies, then it will be more difficult to switch to other options later. It’s like we are selecting which branch of a tech tree we will go for in a video game right now but it’s in real life.
Thank you Saulius! I basically agree with everything you said here. I would really hope some people from the space governance space can give us some insights here. Do you happen to know some of them?
Nice post! One intervention could be specifically arguing against including factory farming in space colonization plans. But methods and the tone for doing that might have to be very different from what animal advocates mostly use now. We’d have to be very careful and strategic about how we do that because doing it badly would make future efforts much more difficult. We could also fund and encourage research how to colonize space without animal farming.
If they get good at factory farming in space colonies, then it will be more difficult to switch to other options later. It’s like we are selecting which branch of a tech tree we will go for in a video game right now but it’s in real life.
Thank you Saulius! I basically agree with everything you said here. I would really hope some people from the space governance space can give us some insights here. Do you happen to know some of them?
Unfortunately, I don’t