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I say we engineer a breed of Mike the Headless Chickens. Just enough brain stem to stay alive, not enough brain to care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

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Or, Lab grown meat would be a good solution.

edit: Lab grown chicken exists, its just wicked expensive at the moment. Just a matter of time.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/12/2/22125518/lab-gr...

Aren't they still microorganisms at that point? Don't they have hopes and dreams like animals? Or do we not know about either and are drawing a magical line at some point?

I'm comfortable to draw a line in the sand.

Something along the lines of: If its got eyes and an arsehole, lets treat it with some basic respect

Sure, you let me know when we can grow a decent drumstick in a petri dish.

We can do it now, just not at anywhere near competitive scale/cost yet

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/12/2/22125518/lab-gr...

No. A randomly arranged amorphous mass of protein is not a drumstick. There is no bone, there is no skin, there is no cartilage, there is no connective tissue.

Would it not make sense to re-use the circulatory, filtration, energy production, digestive, and excretory systems that evolved over millions of years to locomote chicken flesh, rather than try to re-engineer these systems? Just ditch the brain. If there’s no sentience, what is the ethical difference between this and vat-grown synflesh?

A randomly arranged amorphous mass of protein is all I want from chicken.

I remove the bones anyway.

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