Yeah, I'm not referring to every cow or pig or chicken etc that's slaughtered, but a lot of meat consumed in this country and in the USA is from animals whose lives are... well, poor would be an understatement. I think it makes intuitive sense that if the demand for raised livestock for slaughter was decreased because there was another source for the meat that they produce - i.e., grown from cells - the animals that are still raised for that purpose will probably see better conditions because there won't be as much of a mass-production aspect to the whole enterprise.
Of course that means that over time a "real" steak carved off of a "real" dead cow will cost far, far more than it currently does, but I think I'm okay with that.
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