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I hope this doesn't go anywhere, to be honest. People need more human connection, not less, and the rituals of preparing food, eating together, cleaning etc are

I hope this doesn't go anywhere, to be honest. People need more human connection, not less, and the rituals of preparing food, eating together, cleaning etc are one of THE fundamental things that makes us human. Replacing fast food with healthy food is good, but we should all be trying to cook more, and be with our loved ones (or hell, even roommates) _more_, not less.

plopz 8y ago
I disagree that people need more human connection, and preparing food, eating and cleaning in a social context are certainly not fundamental to being human.
josephpmay 8y ago
I hate to be that guy, but did you read the article? It had nothing to do with the rituals of meals and was about lab-grown animal products
- rauhl 8y ago
  An alternative point of view would be that lab-grown 'animal' products and factory-farmed animal products alike are dehumanising, and that people should kill & butcher their own meat. I'm a huntsman, and I can report that I feel most like I'm being true to my natural self when I'm stalking birds across a prairie. It's a communal effort: my friends are arrayed in a line to either side of me, and often we have a dog or two running back and forth before us. Each of us helps & supports the others, driving through the field, helping cross fencelines, contributing thoughts on how best to approach a particular stretch of land. And yet it's also intensely individualistic: you walk forward, gun in hand, eye halfway to the horizon & ears tuned to a few yards ahead, ready for the rustle which indicates there's a bird in the brush. You think — or at least I think — that this must be how our primitive ancestors felt: together, and yet apart, each doing his own best and each supporting the others in the common cause of getting something to eat. Compared to that, buying a piece of meat or a piece of pseudo-meat in the supermarket is nothing.

plopz 8y ago

I disagree that people need more human connection, and preparing food, eating and cleaning in a social context are certainly not fundamental to being human.

josephpmay 8y ago

I hate to be that guy, but did you read the article? It had nothing to do with the rituals of meals and was about lab-grown animal products

rauhl 8y ago
An alternative point of view would be that lab-grown 'animal' products and factory-farmed animal products alike are dehumanising, and that people should kill & butcher their own meat. I'm a huntsman, and I can report that I feel most like I'm being true to my natural self when I'm stalking birds across a prairie. It's a communal effort: my friends are arrayed in a line to either side of me, and often we have a dog or two running back and forth before us. Each of us helps & supports the others, driving through the field, helping cross fencelines, contributing thoughts on how best to approach a particular stretch of land. And yet it's also intensely individualistic: you walk forward, gun in hand, eye halfway to the horizon & ears tuned to a few yards ahead, ready for the rustle which indicates there's a bird in the brush. You think — or at least I think — that this must be how our primitive ancestors felt: together, and yet apart, each doing his own best and each supporting the others in the common cause of getting something to eat. Compared to that, buying a piece of meat or a piece of pseudo-meat in the supermarket is nothing.