So a clever scientist has figured out a way to create meat in a laboratory, and sees an industry growing from this that will help to reduce the land use, CO2 emissions and other resource consumed involved in regular animal farming for meat to be consumed by humans.
Sounds like a clever idea, but when this industry takes off, what will happen to the millions of jobs sustained by people involved in the meat industry and the various industries it works in conjunction with?
Without a doubt, the way in which some animals are treated is disgusting, a lack of care, poor conditions, and the fact they are bred only to be slaughtered. But at the same time, technology in all its glory, could be about to create a far greater problem, contributing to mass unemployment and a potential seismic shift in the ways some countries labour markets work, that they may never recover from.