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This thread is making me rethink eating meal all together. Are cows happy living for only two years? Who knows what they are thinking. Maybe if they are in an open field but most aren't and I have heard stories about the fright they experience when they are about to be slaughtered. My heart actually hurts when I hear or see what we do to put meat on our tables. I'm seriously going to start eating more and more fish until I'm no longer eating meat.
2025 is a ridiculous target date. If this type of sea change ever occurs, 2125 might be a more realistic target. As for me, I tried Beyond Burgers and my only complaint is that they're outrageously expensive. I'm all for humane and healthy food production.
Assuming the taste and texture is at least just as good as the flesh grown the old fashioned way, then I think this is the future of meat production.
Would represent a civilizational change. Humans have been hunting for millennia. It is part of human culture and has figured prominently in human ceremonies and religions.
I wonder what muslims would think of eating pork that was never attached to an actual living swine (those foul creatures cursed by god).
Or hindus eating beef that was never part of their dear old reincarnated grandma.
I'd certainly be willing to try it. I'm a carnivore. I eat beef, pork, chicken, and/or fish every day. One of my favorite meats is venison. I'm not a hunter, but many of my relatives are, so I get to have it from time to time. We lived in Germany for several years where game meat is available in groceries and restaurants. Wild boar and rabbit are quite tasty.
So sure, I'd try it. If the taste, texture and price were acceptable why not? Seems the animal rights folks, as well as the vegans/vegetarians should welcome such a development. But what will become of all those animals that don't need to be slaughtered? When a cow's milk production drops, and hens stop laying they don't become pets. To say nothing of pigs. They seem to exist only for meat production. And leather will become extremely expensive.
Given all the growth hormones and antibiotics that are found in meat now, I do not doubt that this "test tube" meat could be at least as "healthy" as real meat.
My initial response was "no, I wouldn't eat that." But then I gave some thought to how we produce meat right now. We are only one step off of "lab grown" right now. Given all the chemicals given to these animals - how we used science to produce chickens with more breast meat, etc etc. It really isn't that much different.
Every type of fake meat I've ever seen, had lots of fat and salt added to it. The producers think that not enough people will buy it, if they don't put large amounts of those unhealthy ingredients in it, for taste-appeal. I'll bet that if meat is grown by cloning cells of animals, they will do the same and add those kinds of things.
The major flavor part of most meat is its fat. Then most people season it with salt when they prepare it.
Really. And fat is not unhealthy per se - try to live without lipids and see how long you last. Quantity and type of fat - that's another matter.
This thread is making me rethink eating meal all together. Are cows happy living for only two years? Who knows what they are thinking. Maybe if they are in an open field but most aren't and I have heard stories about the fright they experience when they are about to be slaughtered. My heart actually hurts when I hear or see what we do to put meat on our tables. I'm seriously going to start eating more and more fish until I'm no longer eating meat.
I had the same misgivings about 12 years ago. This is what put me over the edge:
It's a video about how the horrible living conditions most farm animals endure.
(Full disclosure, it is produced by an organization with ties to PETA, which made me skeptical at first. But I did some fact-finding through more reputable organizations like HSUS and Mercy For Animals, and confirmed much of what I saw in the video)
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