This farmer’s rebuke of cell cultured meat is exceptionally ironic considering the chickens we slaughter for meat have been selectively bred to grow to slaughter weight in about five weeks.
This incredibly fast rate of growth means that the bird's young bones are unable to support them, breaking under the weight and strain of their disfigured bodies - resulting in painful lameness which prevents them from eating, drinking or even standing up. Many die from dehydration or starvation because they are unable to access food and water points. Organ failure is also extremely common, with millions of birds dying from heart and lung failure before they even reach the age of slaughter.
So perhaps the real question we should be asking is, how can we ethically justify eating animals that grow so fast that their organs fail, they cannot stand up and they live in constant suffering?
Sadly, this farmer is using her lack understanding about cell-cultured meat as a reason for deciding that it must be bad. However, not understanding how something works is not a valid criticism in and of itself of that thing. So just because this farmer doesn’t understand how cell-cultured meat is created, does not therefore mean cell cultured meat is bad, especially as you can literally research how it works.
What is bad though, is needlessly causing suffering to tens of billions of animals and then slaughtering them.
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