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One day it may be possible for meat to be produced in laboratories. This would mean animals would no longer have to be killed for meat production. If the resulting meat was indistinguishable from normal one, would you eat it?
| Sure, meat is meat | 36 | |
| Absolutely! Guilt-free meat at last | 14 | |
| No, that'd give me the creeps | 36 | |
| No, it's still meat | 5 |
Other: It can't be any worse than the meat I've eaten in the Navy.
My first ship kept saving money by ordering meat that prisons turned away... marked as, "Unfit for human consumption."
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I'm a vegetarian but I WOULD eat laboratory grown meat. You don't have to kill animals to grow meat in a laboratory so it is much more ethical.
Pure Vegetarian no meat of any kind consumed, protein sources for me are nuts, soy, and milk. You might question milk, because of the fact it comes from cows, but some variations of Vegetarian allows dairy products.
And now we have just had a taste test of lab-grown beef. According to USA Today, the two tasters were food writers. They reported the consistency of the burger was perfect, but the taste was kinda bland. The reason was that there was no fat. But the scientists said they were mainly concerned with the consistency/mouth feel, and that it would be easy to grow fat cells to boost the flavor. The problem now is to scale it up and make it cost-effective, which will take a lot of work.
I'd love a good lab-grown steak. In fact, I can't wait for the first do it yourself home kits to come out! Imagine growing your own steak or lamb chops right in your own kitchen in the Easy Bake Home Meat Lab!
I would have no problem with eating lab grown meat, as long as it had passed the necessary tests to mark it fit for consumption.
i can understand not eating meat cause you dont like killing animals, but why dont some eat eggs, cheese or milk? None of these things harm the animal in any way. it actually harms a cow NOT to milk it. A cow can get sick if it isnt milked.
The dairy and poultry industry isn't perfect. There are many, many cases of cows and chickens being badly mistreated, so, to some people, eating eggs, milk, cheese etc. is endorsing / funding acts which they consider barbaric.
Chickens are bred to produce unusually large eggs which causes suffering in itself, often they are kept in extremely poor, cramped and unsanitary conditions leading to disease and physical deformities (battery farms) and are mistreated (beaten, stamped on, thrown, sometimes to death) by their handlers.
Cows are bred to overproduce milk - that is they produce far greater quantities than they would in nature which means they are often in pain from swollen mammary glands, hence why they need to be milked twice a day. They are also often treated extremely badly by their handlers - stabbed, beaten, kicked, stamped on. Baby calves are taken from their mothers upon birth leading to emotional distress on the part of the mother cows, and the calves receive just as violent a treatment as the adults. Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYTkM1OHFQg
It's not pleasant viewing, but it gives you an insight into how it is at some of the worst dairy farms.
Basically, just because eggs, milk and cheese aren't the direct product of killing, doesn't mean there was no brutality involved in their production.
well, there is that. its disgusting how they treat animals in big factories. Thats why i have chickens of my own for my eggs. Free range eggs are the best.
that is a very good point and something not too many ppl are aware of (yet). And a lot of ppl who do know seem to live in denial of the cruel reality. I only buy free-range organic eggs and have switched to soya milk, but lately the Vegan lifestyle has really started to appeal to me as well.
I am very skeptical to how this would work. In order to get meat you need something that was living or once living. If not its simply imitation meat. So still just fake meat. If they made REAL meat in a lab it means they would be creating something living and killing consumption. So the reality of the matter is we can not get around killing for meat. What you speak of would be equal to soymeat or tofu. Not saying I am for the killing of animals but fake meat is fake meat no matter how you look at it. In fact people are meat. However I do not have to explain the draw backs of eating other people. There is a number of reasons why we can not start eating people. The definition of meat is "Flesh of an animal as food". /fleSH/
Noun: The soft substance consisting of muscle and fat that is found between the skin and bones of an animal or a human. I do not like fake meat. I do enjoy tofu but I do not think I could handle getting rid of all the meat in my diet. See what you propose a very nice idea but they already have fake meat like this. Its made of mostly vetebles.
Yep If it was labratory grown theres pretty much no chance of viruses either, But I'd wait for a while just in case It causes cancer in your bowls or some crap. 10 points if you get the joke.
I certainly like the idea of a guilt-free steak, but artificially grown meat would be a bit creepy. I guess I'd wait for a bit to see if it has any adverse effects on others... wouldn't want to be a guinea pig for this
Urg...I am not for sure on this. Yes, that means we dont have to kill anymore animals, but would the meat itself be good enough to where we will keep our guns in the shed?
It's going to have to happen eventually. The earth is overpopulated, and we cannot sustain ourselves at the rate we consume. This is why food prices are rising globally. Soylent green or starve.