Isn't this the plot of the most recent avatar blue people film?
No, they don't eat the animal in the movie, they cultivate its special liquid that's useful as an anti-aging agent to humans.
Sorry for oversimplifying, I was poking fun at the "consumption of whales who die in the anti aging processing" vs the "consumption of whales who die for the protein food source processing". Now that I explained it, I suppose it is no longer witty or funny.
On the other hand, they eat tons of krill. Bringing back mammoths, however, gives us decent portions from an herbivore, one that I imagine was delicious!
Grass-fed mammoth ribeye? I'm there!
It seems more like they'd want a braindead animal cultivated for meat, as seen in the latest season of Rick and Morty (among other areas).
That’s kind of what he said. Pandas and koalas are pretty stupid
They're still sentient though so to fully maximize the function value, you'd need braindead animals, or better yet, muscle cells formed into common cuts of meat.
I think I read somewhere that blind chickens get less stressed in battery environments, so there's an ethical minefield we could jump into (metaphor intended).