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$375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday
sciencehabit writes "If you take some scientists' word for it, the biggest agricultural revolution since the domestication of livestock is starting on Monday — in an arts center in London. At a carefully orchestrated media event, Dutch stem cell researcher Mark Post is planning to present the world's first test-tube hamburger. Its patty — financed by an anonymous billionaire — is made from meat that Post has laboriously grown from bovine stem cells in his lab at an estimated cost of $375,000, just to prove a point: that it is possible to produce meat without slaughtering animals."
As a meat-eater who feels bad eating cows and pigs (I have seen how smart pigs can be) and doesn't eat some things like rabbit and duck simply because of the animal, I have to say that I don't see myself ever eating this. It will take a lot to ever convince me that something synthetic can taste the same as something that was alive and running around with blood pumping through its brains and a nervous system that spent time outdoors.
On the other hand, if they can also alter it so that it has 98% the taste of the real thing and, say, maybe 30% of the fat and calories . . . . then I might be swayed into accepting it.
I mean, as long as we've dispensed with any general health concerns overall.
Also, if I'm allowed to eat test-tube meat, why can't I eat a test-tube baby?
... in evidence, as always...
So you seriously believe that human beings are supposed to eat animals? What facts would it take for you to admit you're wrong? No amount of facts will change your mind, because you don't eat animals because you thought it through one day and decided it was a good idea, you eat animals because EVERYBODY ELSE does, and you would rather watch a million animals be tortured to death than stand out from the crowd, disagree with your 'friends' and family, etc.
The suffering of others means nothing to you, therefore you are sociopaths.
Human beings aren't supposed to eat animals because ALL human beings who kill animals are visibly neurotic, and sociopathic, and the more cruel their acts towards animals are, the more visibly psychopathic they are. If human beings were supposed to eat animals, then those of us who kill animals on a daily basis would be kind and loving people - but they are not.
A cat kills mice, rats and birds every day or week, yet is totally normal, kind and loving the rest of the time. A mother cat will ALWAYS care for her children, and never hurt them, even though she will be killing rats, rabbits, etc. every day, to stay alive. Show me the human mother who kills animals with her bare hands and teeth, and is also a kind, caring, non-neurotic mother, or who even kills animals in a slaughterhouse, and is a kind, caring mother. You won't find one. There aren't any.
I realise I'm wasting my breath because sociopaths are never going to admit they are wrong, which is part of the reason they are sociopaths...
Lab based meat is the greatest hope for ending suffering on earth that has ever existed - seeing as most people are too selfish and too good at denying reality to ever consider giving up their precious 'meat' - after all, they might 'feel bad' and that would be just awful for them, right? I mean, it would be just so much worse than the REAL physical torture and agonies that thousands of innocent animals will go through because they can't be bothered to spend five minutes thinking about the consequences of their dietary choices.