"slaughter-free," It's important to remember that this doesn't mean pigs and cows are going to live happily ever after on some farms somewhere. No. What it means if it ever actually takes off is that whole species of animals will go extinct. They will never have lived at all. No one will raise them. No farm will have them. Farms won't spend the huge amounts of money to give them feed, and space to live and thrive, and free healthcare if they aren't going to be paid for. This will be an extinction event for beef cattle and pigs. People will struggle to preserve the few remaining cows and pigs in special zoos. They will lament the loss of these animals like they do the white rino and elephants. There will be huge anti poaching forces and people will cry as the few remain beef cattle and pigs are occasionally killed by poachers. All the millions of happy cows out on the plains living nice lives with full healthcare will never have those happy lives. They will all be wiped from the earth by fake meat. It will be the largest human extinction event in human history. It will be like the nearly extinct Buffalo before Ted Turner reestablished huge herds on land he owned for the purposes of selling Buffalo meat. Now once again there a huge herds of buffalo.