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What I’m most interested in is if there is a correlation between between their emotional lifetime grunt series (or subset) and the consensus taste of their meat as opined by tastemakers and aficionados.

It would be great to use this animals emotional state to influence the succulence of its tender flesh.

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"Grumpy pig meat, now on sale! 20% off all depressed ribs!"

Can't wait for the future. /s

Actually the idea is brilliant. If you can demonstrate empirically that meat from happy pigs tastes better, now you have the beginnings of a commercial case for raising the pigs ethically, which has the potential to drive far more improvement in livestock well-being than a million Internet virtue signals about animal cruelty.

Ethically killing someone for (taste) pleasure sounds like an oxymoron to me.

I agree with you, my concern is about what happens if the data doesn't point in that direction (tortured pigs taste the same) or if the market just accepts a trade-off (less quality for less price) disregarding their suffering. I believe technology is inexorable and we'll just have to see what happens next.

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