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We badly need an alternative to animal agriculture. It takes up huge swathes of space, contributes more to global warming than anything else, and now superbugs?
by cameronbrown 8y ago
We badly need an alternative to animal agriculture. It takes up huge swathes of space, contributes more to global warming than anything else, and now superbugs?
This is terrifying and has far far worse implications than climate change. Imagine if we regress back to time where medical science is useless? - Where even having a child becomes a killer because the antibiotics don't work anymore.
I know most people aren't ready to give up meat, but we need to cut production massively and soon. Maybe cloned meat is the answer.
- strainer 8y agoBesides the biological safety issues in mass producing animal flesh detached from an evolved and plenty mysterious natural immune system... Meat gets flavor from animals diet and digestion and overall systematic health. The magic cloned meat fairy should and may well never amount to more than a strange and precarious confusion, about our potential and desirable relationship to food and its environment in crisis.
- cameronbrown 8y agoI'm not saying cloned meat is the answer, just that it could be an answer. Is there any reason not to try?
- coldtea 8y ago> We badly need an alternative to animal agriculture. We could start by eating way less meat, the amount that our ancestors ate more or less, and that doctors advice (once a week or so).
- cameronbrown 8y agoWhich is exactly what I do and would encourage others to do so.