McDonalds will eliminate cage-confined chickens from its supply chain

[Jade]

I apologize, I missed the link you made about lab meat, I had only noticed the satirical one. That's my bad. My real issue however, is the cognitive dissonance in the arena of food production. Sure, we'll have 11 billion humans to feed, but right now we feed that many animals that we raise and kill towards slaughter every year. The fact of the matter is that it takes way more to feed a cow for a week than it does a human. If we stop raising cows and other livestock for food production, we can use the land that we use to grow cow/chicken/pig food to grow people food. And, you're completely dancing around the subject of animal cruelty that is happening right now, in the moment, in favor of an argument about how modern food production is better than food production of yore. You say better, I say different.

Yes, in my eyes you came in here to defend McDonald's. I understand everything you say about food production, I've read and listened and heard. I'm not being dismissive about lab-grown meat, but it is a pure strawman in the context of this thread. We are talking about animals that are in cages, right now, and how maybe they will be in slightly bigger cages in the future, and originally I was just saying that it wasn't a celebration party I felt like joining. The situation present in the OP is a long ways off from mass produced lab meat. Sure, I'm in favor of the idea, but I'm not sure what it has to do with the topic at hand.