I wonder if they will grow human flavoured meat :)
Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
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Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
All that, yet he's still commuting home from work.
I think I would always commute, even if "come home from work" only means leave the room I only enter while on the clock. Blurring the line between home and work too much sounds terribly unappealing to me. Human contact is nice too.
> Human contact is nice too.
Said the man with the sexbot.
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even more interesting, at least to me- what will the vegetarians do? As for all the animals, their populations would obviously get scaled back. The transition would not happen overnight, there would be plenty of time. Though you may have a point- domestic pigs would likely become pets and little else. However, chickens still lay eggs, cows still make milk, and sheep and goats still produce milk and wool.
Your points about non-meat animal products still very much hold still. Pigs would be pets and sources of organ scaffolding for humans. Additionally, the yearlong production of milk in animals requires contant pregnancies, so will still cause many animals to killed. For instance, goat milk products kill far more male goats than any demands for the meat. There are multiple types of vegetarians. Ones who dislike the mor…
Seems like lab-grown milk would be easier than lab-grown meat. No texture issues. I wonder if anyone's working on that.
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#84If lab-grown meat qualifies as vegetarian, will that mean that lab-grown human meat won't count as cannibalism? Wacky.
A few years back, some wit on Slashdot (responding on a similar topic) wondered whether vegans might object to eating meat grown from their own cells...
That's even more twisty. Interesting, though.
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even more interesting, at least to me- what will the vegetarians do? As for all the animals, their populations would obviously get scaled back. The transition would not happen overnight, there would be plenty of time. Though you may have a point- domestic pigs would likely become pets and little else. However, chickens still lay eggs, cows still make milk, and sheep and goats still produce milk and wool.
Vegetarians are pretty diverse and really can't be considered as a single group. Some vegetarians eat fish, some sneak pepperoni pizza, some eat dairy, some will eat anything but steak, some extend the definition beyond food to clothing and furniture. The addition of test tube meat will just add one more variable to further diversify people under the "the vegetarians" label. In a similar vein, would someone who ident…
How can someone who eats fish, pepperoni, or steak call themselves vegetarian without any irony?
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#86I wonder if they will grow human flavoured meat :)
Pork already has that infamy. Hence the slang for human flesh: 'long pig'.
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#87There's not much of a wait left until the day a man will be able to come home from work, eat a lab-grown Bratwurst, have sex with his sex robot, and then relax with an electric cigarette.
All that, yet he's still commuting home from work.
Are you talking about the commuting or the work? Why would he be working at all? We only have to work now because resources are finite. When they are no longer finite what will be the point of working? I just need a food/water machine. If, for some reason, rent still costs then I'll just find the best paying manual labor job and send my robots off to work there.
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#88I wonder if they will grow human flavoured meat :)
Talk about niche markets...
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
this sounds more like industry FUD. People are able to get there daily sustenance from gruel. Yes it may not fit your definition of food, but this is a first world complaint. There are millions of people around the world starving, that this technique could help.
Did you read that linked Michael Pollan piece? If not, please do, it's good. So is his other work. He's not an industry shill spreading FUD. There are serious gaps in our understanding of nutrition. Suggesting that lab grown meat might lack something that "real" meat has isn't FUD. There may be more nutritionally sound food sources than vat meat for people currently starving or subsisting on gruel.
Yes, it is confusing to put meat in a category of foods missing from first-world diets. Should we add caviar and pound cake to that list too?
More significant: will it be a diet improvement to replace fatty hamburger with this 'meat'? Perhaps - since Americans eat pounds of meat per day, a whole week's worth of protein in a Wendy's Double with Cheese.
Re: Lab-grown meat might be only 6 months away
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you read that linked Michael Pollan piece? If not, please do, it's good. So is his other work. He's not an industry shill spreading FUD. There are serious gaps in our understanding of nutrition. Suggesting that lab grown meat might lack something that "real" meat has isn't FUD. There may be more nutritionally sound food sources than vat meat for people currently starving or subsisting on gruel.
Yes, it is confusing to put meat in a category of foods missing from first-world diets. Should we add caviar and pound cake to that list too? More significant: will it be a diet improvement to replace fatty hamburger with this 'meat'? Perhaps - since Americans eat pounds of meat per day, a whole week's worth of protein in a Wendy's Double with Cheese.
We evolved to eat wild game. First world humans are missing the meat that we should be eating.