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What Makes a Better World Lab Grown Meat or Humane Farming
- tracker1 10y agoI'm not sure that the discussion is even something that can be approached in a way that is even remotely unbiased. Yes, a lot of farming and slaughter is inhumane. No, they aren't people. Yes, predatory animals aren't any more humane than any method of slaughter. In the end, we like meat... meat, and high-calorie plants are our main sources of calories. We need relatively lots of them. And many of the calorie rich plant sources have negative effects in a lot of ways. There's also the problem of subsidized bunk science. We've had 5+ decades of really bad nutritional science made policy in this country, and across the world. In the end, it looks like, for the most part if people eat a variety of things and get enough protein in their diet, without going too high in caloric intake, we're fine. And the only reason I say variety is there are a number of micro nutrients, as well as acid and protein chains that are hard or impossible for the body to synthesize from other resources. There's also the increased rates of diabetes (more closely related to higher intake of fructose and starchy foods)... Or the amount of additives in everything... Farming variety out for maximum yields over quality/taste. The whole thing is a really sad mess... You can't feed the world with the Whole Foods mindset (and profit margins). I'd much rather see a limit on the markup for bottled water, and a pretty high tax on all flavored drinks. That alone would probably give more benefit to society. Also, back to the topic, it's pretty hard to compete with the output from meal worm farming, and simpler plant sources... Lab grown meat is mostly a pipe dream, and an interesting experiment but something that is unlikely to ever be cost effective vs simpler animal sources of meat.