• Lab-Grown Meat Is Getting Cheap Enough For Anyone To Buy
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https://www.fastcompany.com/40565582/lab-grown-meat-is-getting-cheap-enough-for-anyone-to-buy Good, this will be helpful for the environment, and meateaters currently looking to switch to a more environment friendly diet.
I'm not switching to vegan but if all meat was replaced with lab grown and it's basically the same thing, there's no real reason for me to complain
Well here is an interesting question, would you switch if they found a way to make the fake meat look, taste and feel like real meat? I am not vegan but if they could create a way to make some form of meat whether fake or not I would switch to that shit. But then again vegans could technically enjoy this meat since it is not a "real" animal per say that suffered? Also I have been thinking if this becomes prevalent what happens to the millions of animals we've bred into the ground for eating such as cows? We would want to use the slaughter houses and butcheries for something else, and many of those species we've bred for eating literally can't take care of themselves. I always found this ironic as if we did abandon meat we would be dooming a huge number of animals as many would lose value and would be occupying space that no longer makes money and thus can't be maintained like that.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109809/3e22084f-9951-4a02-8787-822415591496/i-1-lab-grown-meat-is-getting-cheap-enough-to-go-to-market.png Damn, that actually looks pretty appetizing.
My post already answers your question though,
Gotta love artisan dishes just a tiny sample of food propped up against itself with sauce just randomly sprayed across the plate edge-to-edge for no reason.
Well you said lab grown meat, I was saying fake meat that was indistinguishable from real meat. Because at that point what does it matter anymore you know what I mean, but I am sure there are plenty of people who would still refuse to eat it.
I'm still maintaining my stance that lab grown meat won't be as tasty as proper non-factory animals
Based on?
I mean, if it's basically the same thing, it's basically the same thing A lot of people would bitch about 'vegans pushing their morals' regardless, which I find kind of ridiculous. Grown/artificial meat has the potential to be superior in many ways. if it's 'blind test proof' I hate this idea that it needs to be 'real meat' purely out of symbolic meaning. Real meat obviously would still have its use of course.
I'm really picky when it comes to meat. I only eat chicken, turkey, bison, beef. So it better taste and feel the same as which it tries to mimic.
Because, as far as I know, what exactly actually makes meat taste better with different dietary habits and lifestyle remains unknown. Besides, despite all our knowledge, we're still only scratching the surface of the deeper workings of biology.
So it's unknown so you just...assume it's that way? What if it's tastier? Does the fact an animal died for you make it better or something?
Based on precedent with other attempts to make artificial recreations of food.
Making meat of tofu and flavoring is vastly different to growing something that is actually, biologically meat.
"I'll only switch to a viable, cruelty-free, eco-friendly alternative if it tastes 100% the same and no less." Pretty fucking selfish if you ask me.
I'm just hesitant to eat something that was grown in a laboratory.
This probably rings true for most people though. Why switch to something inferior? We mostly ignore morals when eating meat anyways.
Yeah, I mean... I'm not vegan, but if there was an alternative that was nearly as good as meat at the same price, I'd eat it as a replacement for most of the meat I consume without hesitation. Meat is just not super great for the environment (or for us, because of the whole antibiotics dealieo).
Dude you really need to learn what happens to the animals and meat that you eat
I despise this attitude.
You wouldn't be the slightest bit hesitant of eating something relatively new and different from what you're used to?
but you probably eat shit pumped with 10000 different preservatives pretty regularly
I want them to grow ribs with the bones too though, that is a hard thing to give up you know. Like really, REALLY tender bbq ribs that fall of the bone and melt in your mouth with a smokey flavor mmmmmmmmmm. I could go with a lab grown meat diet but I would want something like that every once in a while, but I feel like if they get good enough at growing meat they can grow bone too. Though it sounds kind of like nightmare fuel though if you think about it.
Livestock agriculture is the worst thing to be occuring on our planet, and anything that could reduce it is great.
Please tell me more about your 100% independent, self-sustaining lifestyle that totally does not involve buying any supermarket products whatsoever.
Like I said before there is also the issue of what to do with the massive number of these animals living at these places, as most of them are not suitable nor sustainable for the local environment. Not to mention you wouldn't have constant money funneling in anymore so you can't even maintain the area you do have for them. Keep in mind these are literally mass produced animals, basically a factory product at this point in business eyes and do you think they're going to spend the millions (possibly more) to relocate and give constant care + environmental balancing to care for these animals. You could give some to farms, but they would basically meet the exact same fate of being killed for food?? You could sell them to other countries or even give them away but then they will be in either the same places or worse. So the point I am making is we are at the point where we can't give it up without all the animals dying in the exact same way just in different locations/forms. Most of them at the exact same level of inhumane as before. There is no happy ending for most livestock unless we think of something very crazy like artificial islands for some or some other thing that wouldn't get funded by anyone with enough money to do it.
Lab grown meat will be unlikely to completely replace livestock agriculture overnight for reasons such as production and acceptance. Demand will drop gradually giving time for livestock farms to scale back. Places have divested in livestock before without releasing a whole bunch of animals into the wild.
We're working on it: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/brain-dead-chicken-matrix-unethical-farming_n_1306960.html?slideshow=true#gallery/211536/0 If You Want To Be A Cricket Farmer, You Better Have A Good Lawye.. Meet the new US entrepreneurs farming seaweed for food and fuel ..
I wonder if that means they're going to use more growth hormones or less. I guess not having to stuff a chick full of growth hormones to turn it into a turkey in a week is already progress.
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