. In what world does anyone have any power to avoid corporate takeovers or buyouts ? AB was because of mismanagement . Monsanto deal is best for the shareholders and they would have been stupid not to take it , also the chances the merger is approved is less than 50 % at this point . Scottrade is the same thing , it ' s a buyout . Who cares about Wehrenberg ? <| sep |> I ' m curious about the lab meat case . Is it the causing pain that is unethical or is it the killing ? Pain is a response to cause the animal to take measures to avoid death . The lab meat may be designed to not have a nervous system with a pain response , but it ' s still a population of living cells being raised only to be destroyed . Also , any practical labmeat operation would have some means of monitoring meat growth , health , and nutrient distribution . Would such a system constitute something equivalent to a central nervous system ? To avoid killing cows would we be creating a new cybernetic creature whose sole purpose is to be incrementally grown and killed by us ?