Isn't this all a bit unnatural?
Certainly it is more natural to eat meat and vegetables than chemicals made from rocks and air, but natural is not always good. Many of the finest creations of the human spirit, music for example, are not natural. Nature, for all the good that can be said about it, is full of cruelty and suffering, and there can be no nobler application for our vaunted intelligence than devising ways to mitigate cruelty, especially when we are the cause. If a "primitive" hunter were offered the chance, through technology, to spare his prey, would he not, like Abraham, thank God for freeing him from the hateful duty he was about to perform?
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