Matrix-style vertical chicken farms

[Vanilla]

Well, I just came across this interesting article this morning, and I found it quite interesting:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012...en-farming

To shorten up the article, it's about a proposal to establish a new type of chicken broiler farms, where you remove (or being born without) the head (or cerebral cortex?) from chickens (basically making it a living brain dead vegetable) and the feet, thus making more room. The advantage of this, is that the chickens don't actually feel the horror of being slaughtered and don't die from overgrowth (as they normally do), the disadvantage, well some people find the idea immensely unethical.

What do you think? - An ingenious idea to help overcome our global food problems, or a despicable monstrosity?

- Ethically?
- Economically (fx. increasing output 4 times)?
- Rationally?