Conscious animals would be a Copernican moment — and a moral red line to avoid
Sauers_ · x · 2026-11-02
The author argues that asserting animal consciousness would be a Copernican or Darwinian moment, upending morality, the meat supply chain, and agricultural civilization. Bottom line: breed only non-conscious animals undeserving of rights, for human meat consumption — though we currently don't know how to create a non-conscious mammal.
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