Re:Lab chimps were dumped on Liberia's Monkey Island – their...
by zamadatix on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:56PM
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I find it nice society can make advances without needing everyone to agree about everything first.
As for why food will probably be one of the last things fixed: no animal ever needed to kick a puppy to make it to the next day yet the vast majority have needed to kill something to do the same. Having too much food is a relatively recent problem (if a problem at all) for society and for those that do it's relatively far removed while the "closer to home" issues you've mentioned get sight daily. Sad, probably - so is most of existence when you really think about it - but it's not exactly a great conundrum why it has been treated differently.
It's more likely artificial meat becomes cheaper/better quicker than society fixes enough problems for this to make it to the spotlight of top issues.
As for why food will probably be one of the last things fixed: no animal ever needed to kick a puppy to make it to the next day yet the vast majority have needed to kill something to do the same. Having too much food is a relatively recent problem (if a problem at all) for society and for those that do it's relatively far removed while the "closer to home" issues you've mentioned get sight daily. Sad, probably - so is most of existence when you really think about it - but it's not exactly a great conundrum why it has been treated differently.
It's more likely artificial meat becomes cheaper/better quicker than society fixes enough problems for this to make it to the spotlight of top issues.