Would you eat slaughter-free meat? (BBC news article on lab grown chicken)
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I don't care where does it come from, as long as it has the same taste, texture and nutritional value
gimme the cyberpunk chiken tendies RIGHT NOW, science man
Eating meat is all about knowing that what you're eating was once a living creature and not just some gay ass plant, give me once-living flesh or give me death.
From what I can tell current grown meats are done so in a vat of sorts and then formed into meat-familiar shapes like ground beef or chicken nuggets. Makes me curious what we'll be able to do for bone-in meats which have their place. Things like chicken nuggets or ribs to name a few. Will we be able to grow the meat on lab grown real bone? Would people think that's ethical? Or would we just mold the meat onto plastic or wooden "bones" to give the illusion of bone-in meats?
I bet you could eat this meat raw! Yay!
A mere preference for "real meat" might just be the most pathetic reason to avoid veganism, lab-grown meat or other ethical and/or sustainable alternatives
Hell yeah, I'm getting ready to cut my meat intake due to ecological concerns, but this'll help make that significantly easier if it gets off the ground.
Finally, I can have my pizza made 'bone-in'. No more of that boneless garbage
This is what is ultimately going to end factory farming, not people converting to veganism en-masse. It literally solves every ethical issue anyone could have with eating meat (apart from religion, and even that is doubtful considering that, for instance, some Jews and Muslims are already arguing lab grown meat can be kosher/halal), and once its cost-effective, we will have no excuse not to transfer to lab grown meat wholesale.
Some pizzas come with bones
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No, I would not.
But there's a larger reason for it, I'd rather we reduce our use of factory farms and instead turn our consumption to actually helping through hunting and consuming the invasive species that infest every major continent instead.
For instance in the US, the only major limitation on deer populations are actually Humans. Not to mention the wild boar issue. We should instead be eating venison and wild boar, this would not only limit our consumption of meat but also deal with some major ecological issues waiting on the sidelines.
If it tastes good, is in my price range and doesn't kill me sure.
Hell even if it kills me a little over time I still eat stuff just cause I like the taste so.
I really don't care where it comes from, truth be told. Factory farm, organic bullshit, synthesis lab, I'm totally indifferent to it. I eat meat because I enjoy the way meat tastes, simple as, so if synthetic meat tastes the same I'll eat it too. I won't go out of my way to buy it, but at the same time I won't avoid it either.
I asked god personally and he said he was cool with it
Yeah well we're nearly 8 billion people now.
IMO, there's no way we'll see an increase in hunting to sustain our meat consumption, and I also really doubt quotas of most animals will be sufficient to feed the population without artificial farming/breeding.
If meat can be grown in labs at a large scale, we might see it being more energy efficient than the current situation simply because of the fewer steps involved in the process.
Even though meat consumption should be reduced on a health level, including lab grown meat, this industry is going to be huge.
I think there can still be a place for traditional animal farming, albeit scaled way down. If this sort of meat processing can make its way into things like fast food (chicken nuggets, burgers, etc), we could massively cut back on demand for "genuine" meat. That would already be a huge impact on the way we consume resources. I work fast food and the amount of meat we sell in one location in one day is truly astounding, so I'm totally convinced that starting with fast food will have a massive impact on our environment. Traditional meat will still be a thing and I doubt that's going to go away any time soon even if this technology takes off. I think that can be okay if we can cut it back because I bet you that most meat is going to processed applications.
The first step is making this technology cheaper than animal farming, however, so we can keep selling our dollar burgers and nuggets and shit.
(Also, if and when this technology becomes economically viable, you can bet your ass that there's gonna be tons of litigation and shit about farmers worrying about losing major sources of income so we're also going to have to get past that. It's gonna be a tough road.)
Bone-in meats could still be found from slaughtered animals, it'd just have to become more of a luxury item or butcher shop item since I doubt independent farmers will make the movie to lab grown.
When the technology for it gets to the point where it's equal the cost of regular meat, absolutely. I haven't tried it personally, but A&W is the first fast food joint I've seen incorporate artificial meat into a menu item, and if it weren't cheaper to just buy a burger with actual meat, I'd definitely just eat those.
You wouldn't download a chicken nugget
Meat piracy is a crime
- UK ad I can totally imagine
We need to reduce meat consumption full stop, making it harder and more expensive and increasing labor costs is the best way.
No! I'm a big spoiled baby and my neat needs to be produced with vast amounts of suffering.
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