Utopia or how we use non-human animals in the year 2035

By KR

Compassion Score: 53.07%

Utopia or how we use non-human animals in the year 2035

The goal of humans and AI is to end suffering of all animals, humans and non-human animals.

That means: No more animal torturing and killing for trophies and medicine.

In the cosmetic industry, animal testing is no longer needed -  totally outdated. Thanks to artificial skin, all tests are done in the lab, in petri dishes, without animals.

As for food, much less meat and meat products are consumed.

Eating meat is a luxury. Thanks to taxes on meet and meet products. Meat is simply too expensive. Human diet is based on plants. There is simply no need to eat meet.

Plant-based food has all nutrients needed. In public institutions like schools, hospitals, daycare, universities, no meat or meat products are offered.

Plant-based food is not only cheaper than meat, but also delicious.

The shocking images on meat packaging that were introduced in 2030 that show the animal before and after slaughtering certainly helped lower demand. Finally, children and adults alike could see what it is what they were eating and how it was “made”.

How did we get here?

Thanks to advances in research (i.e. medicine, artificial tissues, plant-based food production) with the help of AI, and the economic incentives to make plant-based food more affordable plus increasing tax on meat and meat products, suffering of non-human animals could be reduced by orders of magnitude.

The much much fewer animals (cows, pigs, chickens) that are still farmed live a life without suffering. They have space, stimulation, delicious and nutritious food, adequate health care and are held in groups they can chose themselves. Reproduction is left to them. Their meat is only used when they die a natural death. As for chickens, no eggs are consumed any longer. Humans eat plant-based alternatives.

Thus, farmers still earn sufficiently, humans not only live healthier but also longer, and the suffering of sentient beings is reduced.

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