Hacking Meat: Can technology make us eat fewer animals?
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#2Really cool. It's good to know that there are hackathons for this kind of thing.
Ignoring, for the moment, all the overbearing ethical problems with factory farms (those kinds of discussions are almost never constructive), I wonder if a first principles calculation would reveal the sort of potential efficiency gains to be made if you could make in-vitro meat work and scale properly. I bet it's going to be far, far more energy-efficient to grow meat according to demand with nutrient solutions derived from plants or bacteria, than to use factory farms. And that's not even taking other critical resources like water into account.
Re: Hacking Meat: Can technology make us eat fewer animals?
#3Meh. Meat is delicious, I don't want to eat less.
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#4What is it with this modern obsession with not eating meat?
Meat is good. It's healthy, it's very sustainable, it's got an incredible protein:volume ratio, and it's delicious.
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#5The only value of the article is to briefly mention the existence of "in vitro meat" and the concept of a scientific approach to flavor and taste. The article also includes some namedrops that I don't think are significant, but is otherwise completely worthless after you read the first sentence of this comment. For actual information on these topics beyond a mentioning of their existence, please visit wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor Catchall for any sensory experience involving food or eating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste What happens with the taste buds of a human.
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#6What is it with this modern obsession with not eating meat? Meat is good. It's healthy, it's very sustainable, it's got an incredible protein:volume ratio, and it's delicious.
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#7Meh. Meat is delicious, I don't want to eat less.
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Re: Hacking Meat: Can technology make us eat fewer animals?
#8What is it with this modern obsession with not eating meat? Meat is good. It's healthy, it's very sustainable, it's got an incredible protein:volume ratio, and it's delicious.
That's overly simplistic and you know it. There are pretty obvious ethical issues. Not that I really want to start a discussion on them, because if there's anything more played-out on the internet than the piracy debate it's the meat-eating debate.
That in addition to how inefficiently the nutritional value of giant animals is generated.
Disclaimer: I eat meat.
Re: Hacking Meat: Can technology make us eat fewer animals?
#9What is it with this modern obsession with not eating meat? Meat is good. It's healthy, it's very sustainable, it's got an incredible protein:volume ratio, and it's delicious.
That's overly simplistic and you know it. There are pretty obvious ethical issues. Not that I really want to start a discussion on them, because if there's anything more played-out on the internet than the piracy debate it's the meat-eating debate. That in addition to how inefficiently the nutritional value of giant animals is generated. Disclaimer: I eat meat.
Also, it it truly sustainable? The demand for low-cost animal protein has in part led to increased factory farming, antibiotic use, growth hormone use, etc.
(I'm also a meat eater, but I eat less beef than I once did, largely because of cost & health concerns)
Re: Hacking Meat: Can technology make us eat fewer animals?
#10What is it with this modern obsession with not eating meat? Meat is good. It's healthy, it's very sustainable, it's got an incredible protein:volume ratio, and it's delicious.
Meat (or rather, animals) also consume a lot more resources to produce the same amount of available-nutrient output. I'm a meat-eater too, and I agree with your assessment, but it's a little disingenuous to pretend that vegetarians have no reasons for their actions.
(Also, IME there are as many reasons to be vegetarian as there are vegetarians---they all have a slightly different answer.)