Oops! I used the wrong word. I should have said "harness", not "invent". My bad. Hippy? I don't see what hippies have to do with optimism. There were a bunch at the train station doing a PETA demonstration, and I saw a pretty standard distribution of outlooks on life amongst them. I see a strawman. I just want humane farming practices, not a return to anarchy and the A.E.T.P. (Animals for the Eating of Tasty People).
Words are incredibly important. If I was to say the sky is green, even though i meant to say blue, you would say I was wrong.
Hippy + Optimism = All you need is love
Realism = You need someone else in order to love which not everyone can have at once
Does not matter how positive you are, if no one loves you, your optimism fails.
There is no such thing as humane farming anymore than there was a humane way to dispose of the Jews during the holocaust. It is what it is. Slaughter. Would putting the Jews in 5 star accommodation before peacefully gassing them in their sleep have been an acceptable method? Of course not. As with all things in life, the end justifies the means, or not. The end result is we all get enough food as far as is possible. The consequence of us not all getting enough food would be murdering each other for the food. We've been there, we wont go back.
The solution of bio-engineered meat is a viable way of reducing the suffering of livestock. It is also a good way of preventing said livestock from ever being created. Please don't attempt to argue that never existing in order to avoid a traumatic death is a viable alternative to living even for a moment, that would be below your intelligence.
