Doesn't seem any worse than "battery cages" for chickens. Not that either setup is good for the animals.

What's the solution though? Either people need to eat less meat (and pay more for it) or the global human population needs to stabilize or even decrease a little. Neither option seems popular, so technology fills the need.

The developed world is really doing its bit here. We have stopped breeding humans at a sustainable rate and are looking at falling populations in the near future as the boomers age-out

Or stop eating meat altogether. Problem of unsustainable and cruel meat production solved.

Those pig barns look about the same as the ones in Iowa. Only difference is one is in a high rise.

>Workers will be required to go through multiple rounds of disinfection and testing before being given clearance to enter, and won’t be able to leave the site until their next break – reportedly once a week.

I can't imagine living and working for weeks at a time in an environment like that,it sounds awfully dystopian. Imagine a cyberpunk future where the lower casts are permanent sequestered from society because they've been quarantined.

They can leave at any time. It's just that their social credit score will go to 0.

There is a movie you may want to watch.

"Andromeda Strain", directed by Robert Wise, 1971.

The sequence where the specialists are "sterilized" before entering the most secure levels of the lab are best.

Robot voice: "Please enter the chamber and be sterilized."

Dr Leavitt (played by Kate Reid): "I'd rather be decontaminated."