New Scientist has a piece on efforts to breed farmed animals incapable of feeling pain. The article includes this bizarre paragraph:
Performing brain surgery on livestock wouldn’t be feasible on an industrial scale. Livestock would have to be genetically engineered to be pain-free for it to be profitable.
Luckily the piece ends with some useful commentary by Peter Singer and Marc Bekoff, along with a sidebar suggesting vat meat is a more workable pain-free alternative. (Thanks, Nancy and Matthew.) Link.
