Could Engineering Animals to Enjoy Pain End Animal Suffering?

A new twist on an old idea.by Katie HerzogS&M PigGetty Images
Last month, an undergraduate student at Oxford University won the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics for an essay entitled "Why We Should Genetically ‘Disenhance’ Animals Used in Factory Farms." "Disenhance," as Latimer defines it, is "a genetic modification that removes an animal’s capacity to feel pain."
It's an interesting idea. Unless you purchase all your meat from small, bucolic farms where poultry and