Wait, you mean you've learned to grow food in vats?

A-mazing!

Why in the name of the Maker would you expend the resources to grow the bits of the cow that you don't eat?

This sounds at least 80% more exciting than any of the product launches I attended while First Minister.
Capsuleers do like to entertain, I suppose.

It's a cow.

Your product lunch is a cow.

A cow? You are growing a living, thinking, intelligent being, nurturing it from a fetus to adulthood... and then you are killing it, dissecting it and eating it? When you have the option of growing the nutritional components independent of its brain?

I don't think I even want to ask why. I don't think that a generous, or sane, answer even exists.

Edit: I have of course jumped to conclusions, I apologise. Cows make milk. They are contributing by making milk. I'm sure that's it. Again, my apologies for the spurious accusation.

I kind of have to agree with this, here. Does the fact that it has a brain add significant taste to the meat?

A cow? You are growing a living, thinking, intelligent being, nurturing it from a fetus to adulthood... and then you are killing it, dissecting it and eating it? When you have the option of growing the nutritional components independent of its brain?

I don't think I even want to ask why. I don't think that a generous, or sane, answer even exists.

Edit: I have of course jumped to conclusions, I apologise. Cows make milk. They are contributing by making milk. I'm sure that's it. Again, my apologies for the spurious accusation.

A cow? You are growing a living, thinking, intelligent being, nurturing it from a fetus to adulthood... and then you are killing it, dissecting it and eating it? When you have the option of growing the nutritional components independent of its brain?

I don't think I even want to ask why. I don't think that a generous, or sane, answer even exists.

Edit: I have of course jumped to conclusions, I apologise. Cows make milk. They are contributing by making milk. I'm sure that's it. Again, my apologies for the spurious accusation.

A cow? You are growing a living, thinking, intelligent being, nurturing it from a fetus to adulthood... and then you are killing it, dissecting it and eating it? When you have the option of growing the nutritional components independent of its brain?

I don't think I even want to ask why. I don't think that a generous, or sane, answer even exists.

Edit: I have of course jumped to conclusions, I apologise. Cows make milk. They are contributing by making milk. I'm sure that's it. Again, my apologies for the spurious accusation.

It's a cow.

Your product lunch is a cow.

There is no need to apologize, you are presenting a valid question which is undoubtedly interesting for a many viewers.

Our company invests in the safety and wellness of the livestock in our care. To make sure that our products provide the highest quality experience possible, it is most practical to let the bodily functions of the living organism to be controlled by a brain - a practice which is also common in the medical cloning business.

We are nurturing the animals with feedstuffs until they reach a certain weight, and then sell them either directly to the consumers, or to the representatives of the further processing sector. As you say, an outstanding example of this sector is the dairy industry.

It is indeed a cow. But a very special variety of cow. A cow designed to be robust in a variety of environments yet.... well for lack of a better term tasty. The respect for life you show regarding livestock is confusing. Are you simply opposed to killing or rather eating the things you kill? Crews, cows, what have you.

To my limited understanding, sir, the object of morailty is a concern for those who think and feel - those who are capable of understanding affection and suffering, and who are arguably conscious. Cows, crews, what have you, all share very similar neuromorphologies - most mammals do, in fact. If we wish consistency, we have to consider them as well.

Have you considered cybernetically augmenting cows so they could produce higher quality milk?

Oh come on, this is the oldest dance in the cluster. You can keep your vat farmed protein, I want food with character. if I have to lamp a cow over the head with a rock a few times to enjoy the real thing then - dammit - I will.

I'll stop eating animals when they stop tasting so good. Thank you Etienne, for doing your part to make sure we won't run out.

And yet Blood Raiders do not attack ranches or feed lots; the Nation doesn't abduct horses or dogs; the Amarr faith doesn't prescribe the methods of worship and redemption to be enjoyed by cats. This implies that there is a qualitative difference in the consciousness of different organisms.

Though, to think of it, I suspect Silas Vitalia will applaud you for likening baseliners to cattle.

A cow? You are growing a living, thinking, intelligent being, nurturing it from a fetus to adulthood... and then you are killing it, dissecting it and eating it? When you have the option of growing the nutritional components independent of its brain?

Eating the flesh of a living creature is never more meaningful than when you have slaughtered the animal yourself; doubly so if you have taken it as quarry in a hunt, or raised the animal from birth. It shows a great measure of respect to a living thing that you deem it worthy to take sustenance from it. Who ever respected a vat of raw protein?