Would vegetarians choose to eat meat again based on the fact that the animals didn’t know they were being hurt?
Wouldn’t it be much simpler & more ethical to just treat animals better?
US philosopher sparked a debate this week by calling for the genetic modification of animals’ DNA so they don’t feel pain when they are being slaughtered.
Adam Shriver of Washington University in St Louis says there is a moral case for altering the DNA make-up of cows, chickens and other animals bred for their meat.He argues that: "If we can’t do away with factory farming, we should at least take steps to minimise the amount of suffering that is caused. I’m offering a solution where you could still eat meat but avoid animal suffering."
Even if animals couldn’t feel physical pain, that wouldn’t alleviate the emotional and psychological pain they endure of being cooped up in dark, overcrowded conditions for days, weeks, months, years leading up to their innevitable deaths. And if anything, relieving animals of physical pain will encourage slaughterhouses to treat them even worse.
The problem needs to be tackled head on. If we can do something so incredible as to readjust a living organism’s DNA to alter their pain barriers, why can’t government’s here and abroad do the comparably simple task of pushing through legislation ensuring the animals are treated better?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/48779/
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Faith, man has been playing God since we ate that fruit off that one tree
we wouldn’t really know what the animal felt, vegetarianism is more efficient for feeding people so it isn’t really a world food problem solution. I reckon slitting an animals throat is less cruel than it being terribly treated as it grows, so the slaughtering part is irrelevant to me. Keeping animals in terrible conditions is the worse to me, but would we really know if genetic modification worked?
no it is immoral.
This whole subject is nothing new, there are things that that would make you cringe that go on with these cloistered mad scientist labs all over the world. And of course it is not something that man should play With as something is going too mutate eventually and kill off the human race.
What a load of ____!
YES! Bring on the Flying Monkeys with 4 ar*ses!
Seriously.Sounds like another stupid PC brigade thought.
Leave us meat eaters in peace!