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Rick Rosner: Heading: ‘evolution does not give a fuck’. One of the hardest things, I think for people to avoid doing when thinking about evolution is thinking that evolution has any kind of morality or purpose or anything because evolution is just that the species that are successful at reproducing or the variations within species that lead to reproductive success, those are the species or varieties that survive for at least a while, but it’s not part of any overall program. And the waste, if you’re going to judge, well, A, you can’t judge it all. You kind of can, if you judge that order is one of the defining criteria of the universe, then you can judge. If you do judge the products of evolution, you find that evolution is just wildly, wildly cruel and wasteful. Evolution is a drunken redneck with an AR 15; kills everybody, kills everything except for some redwoods and amoebas and some other shit.
Under evolution, you have trillions of conscious beings created with dreams and desires that all get dashed as those beings age and decay. Evolution doesn’t give a fuck. You have all these animals that were born and developed sensory apparatus and consciousness and the ability to perceive the world and appreciate the world and for other animals, they’re just a meal. The US slaughters 9 billion chickens a year and every one of those chickens could be somebody’s pet. People have pet chickens and chickens are lovely pets. Pigs are lovely pets. But no, they’re just a meal for it to be kept in pet concentration camps and slaughtered for meat.
In the future, we’ll have sources of meat that aren’t as cruel but it’s been going on for so long in all of human history. The percent of people who would pay, say, 30% more for a chicken from a genetically engineered brainless chicken, suffering free chicken would even 20% of the population be interested in paying $11 for a chicken sandwich instead of freaking $750 because the$11 chicken sandwich is cruelty free? No, I mean, yeah, maybe 20%, but that’s kind of high. But like, shit is cruel and wasteful and we’re entering into the era of intentional mutation where we engineer things the way we want, not the way the trial and error of evolution does. And there’s a lot horrible about that, but there’s a lot that might be decent and good and less cruel and wasteful. It’s creepy, sure. Headless chickens, anencephalic chickens with little pin heads and a factory with 10,000, 20,000, and 50,000 of these weird brainless creatures being fed matrix style is weird, but less cruel.
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Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
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Founder, In-Sight Publishing
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