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- skored, on 10/12/2007, -6/+56That is nuts. They are turning them into big, fat, smelly plants. Does this mean vegetarians will be able to eat them? ;)
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38I was wondering how people would respond to this.
"We want our pigs to live healthy, fun, normal lives on freegraze organic pastures before we kill them for food but we ***** will not TOLERATE it if you take away the pain and stress of an imminent death!"
Sure it's a little ***** up, but if we're going to end up eating them anyways might as well make their life easier. I mean we're breeding them specifically to eat in the first place. If you think that's any less cruel than taking away their sense of feeling than you're crazy. - nymphetamine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Woah. Must be a pretty rough neighborhood if the prostitutes are fighting back. I guess the money just isn't enough.
- scrubadub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30It has zombies in the title and I don't want to do it!
- schroeder, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28And what if by chance these retard animals breed with normal animals? Super-retard animals?
- docidu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Holy HitchHikers Guide.... reality imatating sci-fi yet again... hrmm, mabey i should start writing sci-fi about drug legalization....
- andyrobo60, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20How long till this happens with people??
people with no stress or aggression, perfect world or everyone dead?? - po6ot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Hmm, apparently human flesh is the best for us. (containing all the right amino acids, etc, funnily enough ^^)
Instead of pigs we should be growing zombie humans for us to eat, and then we can farm their organs.
We could call them "Omegas".
Then we could breed semi-idiots for manual labour, these could be "Epsilons". Wait, where am I going with this... - zachws, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17kudos to this man above me for having a brain and a set of testes in this unilateral plunge
- halbe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I'll make a bet that this will be on the next Diggnation...
- schlurp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14It's true that being food is a constant source of discontent among the current pig population which causes discipline issues with certain troublemaker pigs.
But isn't feeding them brain way more expensive than the normal pig diet? - Sil369, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Lets give them our intelligence genes and see what happens. >:]
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13OMG...they actually HAD a pig like that, at "the restaurant at the end of the universe".
It was lying on a platter, and describing to the diners how it was going to be prepared for them.
(Hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy, the original...and maybe also the crappy, super-abridged remake) - bickdigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13in British Columbia, pigs don't mind eating you
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900762.html - po6ot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11re: soldiers
As Einstein said... "That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed." - shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15"Does this mean vegetarians will be able to eat them? ;)"
vegetarians might be ok with this, but i'm not so sure i am.... - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"How long till this happens with people??
people with no stress or aggression, perfect world or everyone dead??"
...Serenity, anyone? - davecor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Wrong to eat meat? Are you saying nature is wrong? The entire ecosystem is built on the idea of eat or be eaten.
If you have incisors in your mouth, you were engineered by millions of years of evolution to rip and tear flesh.
The cool thing about being human is that we can be selective about which animals we kill for food.
In fact, a Hindu friend of mine is the only one to ever give me a decent argument in favor of vegetarianism - Humans are the only species on earth that can CHOOSE not to eat meat, and our humanity resides in our ability to make choices.
Me? I choose to be an omnivore. There are a LOT of animals out there that would be happy to eat me, and I'm happy to eat them.
If we aren't meant to eat animals, why are they made of food? - tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12If you've ever been to a butcher shop, they are complacent zombies once they've been put out.
Kind of scary. Just think of the evil thoughts govt officials will get in their heads. A soldier who has no personality but only complacency to fight and die. The govt already tries to do this with the BS they put out. - freff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@mgapparel
If it wasn't for the spam, you would have been dugg. You're dead on with your observation that politicians and Madison Avenue have been working on this problem for many, many years now.
Unfortunately, your spam link means that you get the wrong end of the shovel. - Ennoch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Pandas choose not to eat meat.
- OsakaWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Why does the phrase, "you are what you eat" come to mind?
- Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6nutritionally speaking, there is no difference between a 'normal' piece of DNA or protein, and an engineered one.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You mean MTV.
- Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6dugg for the huxley reference
- digitizit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is how it all starts. First we make zombie pigs. Then we eat them. Then people start to turn into zombies and the world goes all to hell.
Just remember, aim for the head! - azurechaos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@Detritus
I don't understand how it's your prerogative though because it's not like you have to be a skilled hunter or anything to eat a veal calf, not to mention having prerogative doesn't require depriving an animal of iron and suspending its movement for the entirety of its short life. It may be your right if you go out in the wild and kill it yourself, but there's no real sense of a food chain when all the prey is strapped into cages and dedicated to serving one species(us). - Flappy3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"You are what you eat"?
If so, I'm cheap, quick and easy. - nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I see 4 possibilities here:
1) The animals feel stress and pain, and respond to it in ways that we see and attribute to their stress and pain.
2) The animals have no actual awareness or feelings of stress or pain, but their nervous systems produce behaviors that we see and attribute to stress and pain.
3) The animals feel stress and pain, but don't respond to it or show any signs of it.
4) The animals have no actual awareness or feelings of stress or pain, nor do they show any signs of experiencing stress or pain.
Most people believe the first one is the reality, but I see no evidence that it isn't the second one. Now, these genetically altered animals - would they be the third or the fourth on that list? Would be freaky if they were the third - kinda like those stories of people having surgery under anaesthesia that didn't quite work, who were paralyzed and seemed knocked out, but were completely aware and could feel being cut up. - CatalystGhost, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10So you'd much rather have the satisfying feeling that the animals whose meat you purchase died painfully, utterly afraid, and in pure terror? That's any less sick?
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6A follow up on above comment:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/05/17/fluoride_to_make_prisoners_stupid_docile.htm
"Both the Germans and the Russians added fluoride to the drinking water of prisoners of war to make them stupid and docile." ..."
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/effects_of_fluoride.htm
""The hyperactivity and cognitive deficits are generally linked with hippocampal damage, and in fact, the hippocampus us considered to be the central processor which integrates inputs from the environment, memory, and motivational stimuli to process behavioral decisions and modify memory. [Delong,G.R.,Autism, amnesia, hippocampus and learning,Neuroscientific and Behavioral Review, 16:653-70, 1992]" - Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5friend > pig
- SoundJudgment, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4'Soylent Green' has already been done.
- SLiTHS, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Honestly? I know -people- who wouldn't mind being food.
They're called potheads guys, and they're some of the happiest people I know. All these pigs need is a little bongwater and you'll have your "highly prolific and oblivious to their physical and mental status" vege-meatsicles.
I'm sure a lot of people could've figured this out in high school~ - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Will somebody PLEASE think of the piglets?
- KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I don't see how you can ethically oppose using technology to create potentially better means of producing food.
There are a lot of humans on this planet and we all want to eat. Now, do you want to dick around on 'organic' farms or do you want to end world hunger? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Ah, just like the way TV turns people into mindless automatons.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Oh you mean the one that looks like you can digg a comment twice...by clicking a link and then using the browser's back button.?
I am not sure if it actually works, as you might be just going back to a non-refreshed page, still in your browser's cache, where you seem to be able to digg again....but it is merely refreshing the page when you do.
Or did you find some other bug? - Adwt0125, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8GO ORGANIC!!!!!
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does this remind anyone else of the cow at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
- murkathan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm a vegan and this completely goes against any morals that I think humans should possess. Instead of constantly manipulating these poor animals' genes, it would really help if everybody just got rid of all the disgusting factory farms so these animals wouldn't have to feel fear and pain. I know this whole world isn't going to turn vegan, but if the animals have to give up their lives just so somebody can have a steak, at least let them have a quality life free of pain and fear instead of turning them into vegetables. Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with people these days that makes them think they can destroy everything that is natural in this world?
- SoundJudgment, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What the HECK are Automotive Designers doing messing around with the food chain?? Just tell them to build their Chevys and Pontiacs with better gas-mileage and leave the rest of the world alone!
- josh1413, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What is General Motors doing messing with animals. They have enough mess ups with the business they are currently in...........
:P - BlackGaff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What's up with all the anti-vegetarian comments? When did NASCAR and red-neck America invade Digg? As a general trend, if anyone mentioned they were vegetarian, they were dugg down. Pro meet = pro diggs. WTF, mate? Most vegetarians don't hate you because you eat meat, just like most Christians don't hate you simply because your Muslim. Wait - bad example. Reverse that last one.
Yes, human bodies can use meat proteins. Yes, humans have the mental capacity to mass breed the simple-minded, keep them in small, confined, dark compounds complete with gas chambers...err slaughter bays (sorry, my mind drifted for a moment back to Germany circa 1944).
But how does removing the capacity really make things better for the soon-to-be slaughtered? Really, it just gives the mass producers an excuse to make mass farms and slaughter-house conditions worse then they already are - after all, the pigs don't mind. Anyway you can cut corners to save money is a good thing, right?
Unrelated:
My favorite quote from the forum today, paraphrased: "I'm a gun-toting, meat eatin' hippy". Zahh? How does that work? Mayhaps I misunderstand the word "hippy" - "gun-toting", or "meat eatin'". - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Napoleon is going to be pissed.
- Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they choose not to have sex too, go figure
- zapa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this sounds ethical
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5First ,please only talk for yourself's opinion, not for others. Many will also just counter that "bodily feature" by saying that since nature gave us a body to digest and gain nutrients specifically from many meat sources, it intended us to eat meat. Humans aren't really vegeterians biologically, although they can indeed opt for it if they choose to be.
"If we do this, we are messing with nature, and without nature we wouldn't even exist."
... if we didn't mess with nature, you wouldn't even have your computer to type on. That's just an hypocritical opinion.
OK, I tried to answer maturely, but I'm not going to act like a jerk by digging you down although I do find your argument to be self-centered. - Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, they're trying to turn them into plants, but we all saw how well that worked on Miranda. Invasion of pig Reavers in 5...4...3...
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Well, we're eating animals, not friends. There's some sociological difference there at least to quite many people.
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