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Say scientists could synthesise meat on a wide scale in a lab without any animals dying. It's equally nutritious and there is no discernable difference in how you cook it, or how it tastes. Would you try it?
| Yes, if it were cheaper than real meat. | 18 | |
| Yes, if it had fewer calories / less fat than real meat. | 9 | |
| Yes (even if it were a bit more expensive) because nothing died. | 23 | |
| No, it's not natural. | 23 | |
| No, I want to eat animals even if I can't tell the difference. | 8 |
Then who the hell is eating all the imitation chicken nuggets and gardenburgers?
Hey Wigsplitz:
In reference to your question about Imitation Chicken Nuggets and Gardenburgers. They are made of veggies and tofu. And you should try them sometime it might make a Vegetarian out of you they are delicious, and fat and cholesterol free. Plus high in fibre.
I couldn't. It's disgusting. When I imagine meat grown in a lab, I just imagine twitching bloody placentas. I bet it stinks as well. Seriously it would make me vomit. I love animals and rarely eat them (I don't claim to be vege), but it's natural. All animals who eat meat, eat other animals. It's the cycle of life.
I'd try it once or twice. If I liked it, I'd probably buy it again. If not, I wouldn't. Simple as that.
Fuck that i dot trust the government. They already are making clone animals and most of our food is already non-natural. Not that i like animals getting killed but foreal its been that way for centuries
Sounds like nother one of those things that 10 or 20 years later "they" say that it ends up causing more disease or adverse side effects than whatever it was trying to replace...
Hell ya! If it had the same texture, flavour, and cooked the same way as real meat. Even if it was more expensive
You seem to be the only person here who has read the whole thing and actually spared some thought in answering this. For what it's worth, I agree with your answer completely. It's exactly the same as mine. I don't need stuff to die and I'll happily pay a bit more if it doesn't.
It just seems so logical. I don't think a lot of people read any of the polls/questions on IIN thoroughly before commenting; either that or they have dysfunctional imaginations.
I read the whole thing. My thinking immediately went to the whole "imitation" thing. There's enough disasterous examples of imitation, synthetic, "new and improved" replacements for everything from plumbing, paint, fabric, consumables and so on that I'd be quite leery of eating synthetic meat when regular real meat is perfectly healthy, in moderation of course. Unfortunately these disasterous consequences aren't noticed untill it's far too late. I don't see the benefit in risking it.
I put a lot of thought into the question because it raises so many different arguments. In the end I kept it simple. The initial draft described how the meat could be produced. Anything from engineering "animals" without brains or nervous systems, grown in a lab, with their muscles exercised by electrical impulse. But I thought that would skew the results because people would think, "Ick! I'm not eating anything that didn't have a brain, even though logically, it's kinder".
In the end, people's mistrust of science (quite rightly in many cases) seems to be the abiding factor. The food industry, as much as any other, is self-serving. Individual people's health is much less important than profit. GM crops, for instance, exist for profit-making, not for making people happy and nourished.
That's why I said "equally nutritious" and it may only have been implied but I meant that there were no nasties in there or knock-on health effects.
I was interested in how little thought people gave to animals. Whether just an extra 10% added to the cost would persuade people to take a more animal-friendly stance. Or whether even a benefit to themselves would persuade them.
I think people are quite set in their ways and it's difficult to imagine them choosing to do things differently, no matter what the benefit is.
I understand your reasons for creating the poll, and your reasons are noble and I appreciate that.
The same way you find it disheartening that people didn't go to your side and choose to save animals is the same reason I found it maddening that people didn't shy away from the whole imitation factor (most people chose only if it was cheaper, I think few people thought of the safety factor)-which is pretty predictable, considering most people buy their groceries/food based on price/convenience and most people are carnivores.
I'm a farmer and overall raise my own meat and veggies, so I probably didn't answer in the "typical" way, based on price...much of the reasons I farm is because I'm leery of what's in grocery store foods so my answer is probably not typical...I also treat everything I grow or raise with the utmost personal attention, respect and kindness, so again probably a rarity...but thankfully due to the nature of my business I get to meet nice, concerned people on a daily basis. I personally think that maybe the answer is not to create artificial meat but to make people more aware of where their food comes from and what suffering may occur and what artificial means may be used to provide that food...If people actually faced where and how their food comes to be, they may have a different attitude.
If you lived near me, I would pay you more money for the food you produce than what I would find at a supermarket. I spare no expense when it comes to food. I would much prefer my money to stay in my local community.
Yeah, I was disappointed that people didn't come over to the veggie side. I was wondering just how much it would take to persuade people, and I was (if I'm honest) disappointed in the answer to that.
As for the rest of your post, I know farmers and they all have a remarkably similar attitude to you. I think it's absolutely the right attitude and I wish farmers had more power than supermarkets. Farmers are some of the few people in the food production chain that I actually trust and (in this country, at least) they get treated abysmally.
None of the above. I was in the military. Imitation? Hell we have food that was rejected by PRISONS as being "unfit for human consumption."
Imitation food can't be much worse.