This Is Vegan Propaganda (& Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

by Ed Winters

One such idea put forward during a project to find sustainable solutions to UK animal farming involved removing the cerebral cortex of chickens and essentially lobotomising them and hooking them up to life-support machines to keep them alive. This really summarises just how far we have gone in devaluing the lives of non-human animals, to the point where lobotomising them is viewed as a potential way of making animal farming more sustainable, rather than no longer eating the animals in the first place. Gene editing is another idea under discussion, with the USDA and the animal agriculture industries looking to control this new technology and find ways to incorporate it into factory farming. This could involve animals’ genes being edited so that they are hornless or, more disturbingly, designing them to be blind or deaf so that they would be less distressed about being in crowded conditions.