Yah. How that stimulus is introduced to the tissue is of prime importance given the ethical question. Synthetic stimulus is probably the method most conducive to the ethical development of healthy meat, but I wonder about the implications concerning neural complexity.
What does cruelty really constitute? I hope we don’t gloss over the potential implications of latent sentience of any given neural system because of its engineered simplicity just because of its usefulness.
Like I said, surely, with the might of mind over time; these questions will pale into insignificance given the accumulation of knowledge, but I worry about the mistakes that must be made to learn the appropriate method.
Disclaimer: I was horrendously drunk when I wrote this!