Something else that speaks volumes about the idiocy of the meat eating public. You are NOT carnivores, you are omnivores. If you are going to contribute to the deaths of around 85 lives a year, you should at least know why.
I will happily admit that I am one of those vegan animal-rights extremists and after reading much of this thread I am very disappointed with most of the people on/.
I have no problem with how you choose to live your life, but if you, being mostly well educated and highly intelligent, think that meat eating is the natural, healthy, sustainable way to go about your lives you have been misinformed. I ate meat for 24-years, so I understand both sides of the argument very well. There is no denying the amount of suffering and ecological damage being perpetrated by factory farming, it is merely how you choose to go about your daily lives AFTER accepting it. As for natural, we are herbivores. Our bodies were not made to digest cow's milk or meat. While they have adapted slightly, many scientists believe the recent (last century) surge in consumption of animal products to be the leading cause of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Please do your research before questioning our lifestyle, as we most definitely have done ours.
As for the parent, animal-rights extremists are not against lab meat. We could not care less and don't. While you aren't going to see many of us eating it for health reasons, replacing the cruelty with a non-sentient 'thing' in no way violates our ethics.
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." - Thomas Edison
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Something else that speaks volumes about the idiocy of the meat eating public. You are NOT carnivores, you are omnivores. If you are going to contribute to the deaths of around 85 lives a year, you should at least know why.
I will happily admit that I am one of those vegan animal-rights extremists and after reading much of this thread I am very disappointed with most of the people on /.
I have no problem with how you choose to live your life, but if you, being mostly well educated and highly intelligent, think that meat eating is the natural, healthy, sustainable way to go about your lives you have been misinformed. I ate meat for 24-years, so I understand both sides of the argument very well. There is no denying the amount of suffering and ecological damage being perpetrated by factory farming, it is merely how you choose to go about your daily lives AFTER accepting it. As for natural, we are herbivores. Our bodies were not made to digest cow's milk or meat. While they have adapted slightly, many scientists believe the recent (last century) surge in consumption of animal products to be the leading cause of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Please do your research before questioning our lifestyle, as we most definitely have done ours.
As for the parent, animal-rights extremists are not against lab meat. We could not care less and don't. While you aren't going to see many of us eating it for health reasons, replacing the cruelty with a non-sentient 'thing' in no way violates our ethics.
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." - Thomas Edison