lethargiclogic:

transhumanisticpanspermia:

caspiav:

knightofash:

transhumanisticpanspermia:

caspiav:

hypoallergeniccannibals:

caspiav:

Lab-Grown Meat

transhumanisticpanspermia:

caspiav:

I’m okay with this.

I’m fascinated as to what the reaction of the vegetarian/vegan community at large will be to this. Reduced environmental impact and no harm to a sentient being. The only people I could see still not wanting to eat this are people who are veg/vegan for health reasons, or because they simply don’t like the taste of meat. And people who have some strange, pathological aversion to anything that tampers with genetics. Which is somewhat based, but it’s not like this hasn’t been being tested for years.

Also, fixed link. Was broken.

I feel if this ever gets off the ground there will be a pretty big backlash stemming from people’s fear of “unnatural” food, but I don’t see an issue. I’m just really happy to see an attempt to make meat more a more efficient food because it’s more logical than to expect people to reduce their meat consumption.
Thank you.

In Japan they developed a meat product made with human feces.

I’m okay with this.

In Britain they developed a car that runs on human feces.

So you could eat your poop, and then power your car with your poop poop.

Though there is an issue here. Who would raise cattle as pets? Besides for milk, I doubt many people would have cows. So naturally since no one will be raising many, nor do they roam in the wild, I would expect to see a sharp decline in the population. Personally, as long as the lab-meat is identical to the meat harvested from cattle I really don’t give a fuck, just a little food for thought.

The world’s cattle population is already ridiculously large compared to most other species, so I would welcome a sharp decrease in their numbers. It would mean less methane emissions and less farms, which could possibly mean more land for other flora and fauna.

Hmm, it would would also mean less jobs, though.
Well, win some, lose some.

Cattle farming already doesn’t employ that many people, because it’s factory farming.

Factory farming meat directly would employ about the same number of people.

All it would do would shift those jobs to the upper, educated class.

So, still a cost, but not as big a cost as downright unemployment.

This is an interesting flow of commentary.
I’m not sure how I would feel about lab grown meat. As much as I agree that it is economically brilliant and way more ‘green’ and merciful than factory farming, I don’t think I would feel comforitable eating imitation meat for the same reason that I don’t trust GMOs.
1. You can test as many attributes of the original compared to the man-made one as you want and it can get 100% identical rating as much as you want but to say it is the same is a lie. In order for it to be the same we’d need to know everything about the original, which we do not. Nor will we ever know everything. Meaning, when in 5 generations people stop being fertile and everyone wonders why Ill be able to say I told you so (granted from the grave)

There’s always uncertainty. We could actually be slowly poisoning ourselves with peanuts, and the effects will be noticeable in 100 years. But the probability of that is so ridiculously low it’s not even worth acknowledging.