I'm vegetarian. I find it amusing and irking that many meat-eaters are squeamish about where their food comes from. How about this for an idea:
Imagine a pig that has electrodes connected permanently to the pleasure centres in its brain. It is regularly - perhaps constantly - zapped in these centres to create a state of constant bliss. At the same time it is given a permanent local anaesthetic to its behind from where slices of flesh can be taken. Over time these wounds would heal and allow for a rotation of slices of flesh to be taken. To go further than taking slices of flesh, e.g. taking off a limb, would be too far and would perhaps conflict with the amount of pleasure being fed artificially.
The outcome of this scenario is a blissfully happy pig that would die a "natural" death in due course and some tasty meat obtained without guilt. I don't see any logical problem with it although it does seem a little Frankensteinian.
Any meat eaters want to take that on?
