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I really wish them to succeed. Imagine centuries from now, a future civilisation where human-inflicted cruelty towards billions and billions of sentient beings is ended...

Do you think animals in the wild are being cruel to each other when they eat them?

Yes; and we should strive to behave better than other animals.

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Indians have figured out how to make vegetables taste very good (It helps India is perfect for growing spices) But Indians still eat meat, the majority in fact.

India has one of the lowest life expectancies in the world and and exploding rate of diabetes.

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That would be a Bad Idea: if anyone ate raw cancer cells they could potentially form a tumor if they got into a cut and survived.

Only if you're eating human meat... cloned from you or your twin.

Do you want to taste a McChicken made from pure chicken cancer?

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Meat tastes good. Mushrooms taste good, but in a different way. You can want a perfect world, but it will never exist. Like it or don't, solving meat consumption and its effects on the planet is something we'll have to do. That probably involves a meaty substitute for meat.

The only reasons to find ways to end consumption of natural meat are 1. to increase efficiency and 2. ethical concerns relating raising animals in confinement to slaughter and eat them. The effects on the planet can be completely eliminated with massive expansion of nuclear and/or space-based electricity generation to power vertical farms that a) don't displace natural habitats and b) capture and recycle livestock's…

Now tell me which is the simplest to achieve.

Re: Insiders reveal problems at Upside Foods

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only reasons to find ways to end consumption of natural meat are 1. to increase efficiency and 2. ethical concerns relating raising animals in confinement to slaughter and eat them. The effects on the planet can be completely eliminated with massive expansion of nuclear and/or space-based electricity generation to power vertical farms that a) don't displace natural habitats and b) capture and recycle livestock's…

Now tell me which is the simplest to achieve.

I'm not arguing against switching to a lab-grown meat.
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