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Large Scale Production of Artificial Meat
Fraser Cain writes "Scientists at the University of Maryland think that large quantities of artificial meat could be produced to supply the world with animal-free meat products, like chickenless nuggets. This is based on experiments for NASA, that created small amounts of fish protein cultured from single cells. According to the researchers, larger quantities could be grown in thin sheets and then stacked up to create thickness. Of course, they need to figure out a way to exercise it to make it taste like regular meat."
I think it's more likely that people won't bite even if it does taste exactly the same as real meat. It's just not the same in most people's eyes. As for me, I'll eat it if it's cheaper or significantly better tasting. I also have to be able to grill it.
Honestly people, it's barbaric to eat animals.
Eating meat is natural for people, and a number of other animals as well. There is nothing barbaric about eating the foods that your body is meant to. Now if you were saying the modern treatment of livestock is often barbaric, I'd be inclined to agree, but these are two different matters entirely.
Why do those who are trying so hard to eliminate animal meat try so hard to make the replacements look, feel, and taste like meat? I've never understood that.
I'm not sure about the economics, but one would think eventually it would be cheaper to grow meat in a vat than raise a few million animals, pay for their feed, clean their waste, and then spend the time and money shipping them off to the slaughter house.
At least it would take less energy and be more environmental friendly or don't stink up the local area...
Ever drove by a pig farm? They have a ton by the coast in North Carolina and they don't call em pigs for nothing.
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There won't be millions of animals living in filthy terrible conditions.
I think them not living through that by not living, would be better. But that's just an opinion.
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Religious? Probably nothing - it's still actually meat, just carved from one giant contiually cloned, ever-living, non-sentient beast.
PETA? They should embrace this, since the artificial meat will be non-sentient. I'm sure they'll have a problem with it though.. protesters tend to wrap up their identity in the fact that they're a protester. If you fix the problem they care about, they'll find something else to protest about, because otherwise they have to stop protesting.
There are people that genuinely care about an issue, and aren't protesting as a lifestyle, and to those people - rock on. But many in protest organizations basically protest for a living.
It's perfectly natural to go out and crap in my front yard. My body has no problem at all laying a big steaming turd on that nice green grass on a hot afternoon.
But I think I'll stick to the toilet. Sometimes justifying acts on the basis of nature clashes with doing the right thing.
Cows have intelligence and personality, tomatoes do not.
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In my experience, both have roughly about the same amount of intelligence and personality: somewhere right around the zero mark.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe all the other cows in the world are really, really smart, and I was always stuck minding the dumb ones.
Then again, perhaps tomatoes are really just super-intelligent beings that communicate via telepathy, and live out their short lives as hopeless pacifists, wringing their hands at our rutheless agression towards their innocent fellow vegtables.
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Finally, a post that really begs for a "WTF?!" mod to be added.
Oh come on, this is absurd.
Do you realize how many more resources -- land and fresh water -- are consumed in producing meat than in producing vegetable crops? Livestock are either fed other livestock or vegetable crops. There is no possible way to use fewer resources to produce a pound of animal protein vs a pound of soy protein.
That ethical reason is what motivates me in limiting my meat intake to fish and chicken and limiting my intake of those as much as I can. The most resources are used in producing red meat, followed by pork, then fish and chicken, but a pure-vegetable diet uses the least.
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My gut instinct says the same thing, but I'm practical about things and won't call it "fact" until I've seen some numbers.
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