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There's no need to "torture" cattle to get meat from them. Indeed, meat from animals that are experiencing stressful conditions tastes worse. Not to mention simply having lower productivity. A farm with happy cows is going to be more profitable than one with stressed ones, all else being equal.

And in those specific cases, sure, you could do more efficiently by getting rid of the cattle.

The point I'm making is that there's plenty of cattle raised in places that aren't like that.

Most ranchland is, in fact, a "natural ecosystem." They just send cattle out to graze on it.

The point I'm making here is about food efficiency, though, not about land use.

But as I pointed out, many cattle are ranched on land that cannot grow grain. They can't grow the sorts of crops that humans eat, only the sorts of crops that cattle eat. If cattle weren't being ranched on those lands they wouldn't be producing edible grain instead, or any other food that humans could eat. So the inefficiency is moot when it comes to the amount of nutrition produced, removing the cattle from that land would simply reduce the total amount of food we have available.

Sure, if you remove the cattle then wild animals could come in to replace them, but we should make sure that's not going to result in starvation and poverty if we do that. Many areas of the world have subsistence ranching by the locals.

Because not everyone agrees that it's terrible for Earth. And even some of those that do may not consider it so terrible for Earth that it's not worth the tastiness.

You're wasting electricity running a computer right now, when we know that electricity generation is terrible for Earth. Why are you doing that?

Cows are not all fed on grain. A lot of cows are ranched on land that would not be suitable for growing grain crops.

It's not a planet.

The usual shorthand description I see for the Culture is "fully automated luxury gay space communism".

I shorten it even more, to "pets for supercomputers."

I'm on board with that.

Given they may have done hits previous to this one, it seems like the former is more likely.

Honestly I wasn't expecting anything nearly this extreme. A foreign democracy appears to have a hit squad roaming Canada killing Canadian citizens for political reasons. Even China didn't go this far with their secret "police stations," this is Russia-level BS. If confirmed then I'd be comfortable with quite a high level of diplomatic stink-up ensuing.

We still encounter edge cases with human-controlled flight and we've been doing that for over 120 years.

If you want a music artist that is guaranteed to not come out in support of some political view, you should probably pick a dead one.

Alternately, you could sign up to udio.com or suno.com and generate some of your own. Since it's an AI making the music you can be sure it holds no opinions.

And if they're having trouble with their car they could just hire a taxi. But they're trying to fix their car so telling them to hire a taxi is useless advice.