Pain free meat???????????

[pastymuncher]

mmmmmmmmmm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/10/meat-eating-pain#history-link-box

 

[chris_irwin]

hmm, will it really make a difference? They might not feel physical pain, but poor living conditions can still cause mental pain...

Also, surely feeling no pain can cause problems, they could really hurt themselves and not even notice they're doing anything.///

 

[bb07]

I'm pretty sure they don't feel pain once dead And removing all feeling so they live like a vegetable for their life span really doesn't seem to be all that good either.
The method of killing is really the only contentious issue, with the goal being to have their death as quick and painless as possible. And of course they should be treated humanely while living. So why meddle with their genetic makeup?
I will never knowingly consume any product that's been genetically modified in any way, as I think it's very wrong to unnaturally change such things. Do we really know what we're doing, long term? It's bad enough that everything we eat is sopping with various chemicals.
Leave nature alone.

I'll edit to add that whether I'm being hypocritical or not, I would be in favour of genetically modifying the scientists that dream up these ideas.

 

[789987]

wouldnt fancy having to control a herd of 800kg animals that feel no pain....

 

[Chrisj]

Seems to me to be a potential precursor to being able to keep them in terrible conditions because 'it's ok they aren't uncomfortable because they are incapable of feeling pain.' Carry it on to battery hens. It doesn't matter about them pecking at each other because they can't feel it.
This may not be what the scientists have in mind but I bet it won't be long before it occurs to the industry thinking of profit and making the maximum from the given space.

 

[Tengu]

morraly very worrying

 

[TallMikeM]

yet again we (by which I mean them, clearly not us ) have completely and utterly failed to see the point. As chrisj said, this is just a precursor to the keeping of animals in ever more barbaric conditions.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Seems to me to be a potential precursor to being able to keep them in terrible conditions because 'it's ok they aren't uncomfortable because they are incapable of feeling pain.' Carry it on to battery hens. It doesn't matter about them pecking at each other because they can't feel it.
This may not be what the scientists have in mind but I bet it won't be long before it occurs to the industry thinking of profit and making the maximum from the given space.

Agreed Chris, but this is a bit worrying too??

Stem cell meat almost a reason not to have animals at all??

http://www.helium.com/items/1070331-stem-cell-clean-meat-peta-save-animals-new

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/4212533


Start messing with nature she will bite your bottom, imho

 

[Tengu]

Which will mean bad meat....Hardly good business.

Progress in meat...I once heard of a cow in NZ which had been bred to have polyunsaturated fat in it and produce polyunsaturated milk...Surley there is a vast market for this.

 

[British Red]

Bleeding heart liberals should be excluded from all forms of livestock management and indeed the countryside using cattle prods.

The idiot that proposed this kind of "frankenfood" should be confined to a city for the duration

Pillock