If you believe these animals are somewhat sentient with worthwhile individual qualia, then the consequences of cheap and perfect synthetic meat would be a reduction in number to less than 1 percent the current population.
So given those assumptions it’s genocide. I am not saying I believe they are sentient but presumably once we invent “neural debuggers” we will be able to answer this.
(Perfect synthetic meat: a close enough substitute that blind A:B testing cannot distinguish the difference. Neural debugger: technology to connect trillions of wires, either physically or though light, all throughout a running meat brain so that it’s functions can be fully analyzed and understood.)
If you believe these animals are somewhat sentient with worthwhile individual qualia, then the consequences of cheap and perfect synthetic meat would be a reduction in number to less than 1 percent the current population.
So given those assumptions it’s genocide. I am not saying I believe they are sentient but presumably once we invent “neural debuggers” we will be able to answer this.
(Perfect synthetic meat: a close enough substitute that blind A:B testing cannot distinguish the difference. Neural debugger: technology to connect trillions of wires, either physically or though light, all throughout a running meat brain so that it’s functions can be fully analyzed and understood.)