This first blog I am writing is in response to the blog on the edible "sack of chicken" that is currently being developed. Dr. Folz, would you show us the link to the site where you found this information, because it is extremely fascinating and I would like to read about it myself!
Apparently there is questionable ethics in the development of this new science. Without being able to see the article on it, I would have a more thorough opinion, but from what I know now, I cannot really see a problem with it. From what Dr. Folz's blog stated, the "sack of chicken" that is being made is simply a headless, organless growing mass of chicken muscle tissue. I do not see how this is really causing any sort of harm or pain to any chicken, unless of course some chickens were inhumanely slaughtered in order for scientists to discover this new method of growing chicken tissue, or if some chickens have to be treated inhumanely in some other way in order to extract some of their organs or tissue to grow these "sacks." Otherwise, these lumps of chicken muscle tissue are no more of an animal than a plant, ethically speaking. With no organs or brain, it is just growing tissue, and can thus feel no pain. The value of life of these sacks of tissue are no greater than your average tumor.
Depending on the cost and efficiency to create these sacks of chicken tissue, this could be a huge change for food production in our world. Hunger could be drastically reduced in our own country and all of the health issues that go into raising chickens could be completely erased. Inhumane overcrowding and slaughter of chickens would no longer have to happen. The chicken species might dwindle a bit though, since their only purpose would be to make eggs, at least until we develop a way to artificially grow egg yolks. After that, the only thing chickens would be good for would be getting in the way of traffic on your typical caribbean island.
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