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Well, howdy there, internet, it's Boa again.

So today we're going to talk about a science fiction plot line that is apparently not fiction and it blends a lot of things

together that people have ethical questions about on their own.

Blends a lot of issues together all at once.

So, let's just get started.

Scientists in China have decided to clone pigs on mass using artificial intelligence with no human

involvement so they can eat them.

Yeah, I mean if you were to find a way for what those little robot dogs to deliver the pigs to market,

that would pretty much be all of my science fiction nightmares

all rolled up into one.

So the obvious question is, why did this happen, right?

Okay, so pork is an incredibly important meat in China,

and they never have enough supply to meet demand under the best of conditions.

Recently a lot of their pigs got sick and that further curtailed their own production and would lead to more imports.

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