I couldn’t agree more. And yet… if the billions of farm animals could be engineered to have ridiculously high welfare levels, could that not overcome those very real concerns you point out? Has someone researched the welfare effects of the ancillary activities attached to farm animals?
Beyond animal suffering, the land/water/feed/antibiotic overusage, methane emissions, slaughterhouse worker conditions, zoonotic pandemics, etc still seem problematic
I couldn’t agree more. And yet… if the billions of farm animals could be engineered to have ridiculously high welfare levels, could that not overcome those very real concerns you point out? Has someone researched the welfare effects of the ancillary activities attached to farm animals?