>>10148382 >The reason for sketching what's <i>technically</i> feasible with the tools of synthetic biology is that only <i>after</i> human complicity in the persistence of suffering in the biosphere is acknowledged can we hope to have an informed socio-political debate on the morality of its perpetuation. No serious ethical discussion of free-living animal suffering can begin in the absence of recognition of human responsibility for nonhuman well-being.
