Because sentient animals evolved to pursue their own flourishing, not our instrumental goals, any workflow that exploits them as biological machines can in theory be made more efficient, reproducible, and humane by replacing the animals with designed-to-purpose synthetic systems.
As much as I’d love to have another argument against the flesh-eaters, I think there’s basically no relationship between these two issues. Whether you’re vegan or not comes down to whether you think all sentient beings should get non-negligible moral consideration; whether you’re anti-abortion comes down (at least for many people) to whether you thing human life (in the morally relevant sense, obviously) starts when you’re sentient, can use reason, or at conception. Even if you view certain answers to these questions as ridiculous, bracketing that, any combination of answers is as consistent and natural as they would be alone.
@mean_field_zane@t_holden@ben_golub would the type of rigor u advocate for have avoided the mistake of chamley judd as identified in this paper? https://t.co/VRnRNN2GeW