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Would you eat lab-grown human meat? I've only been vegan for about 2 year now, but my current view is that meat is just gross. Being lab-grown only solves some

Would you eat lab-grown human meat? I've only been vegan for about 2 year now, but my current view is that meat is just gross. Being lab-grown only solves some ethical aspects, but is still gross.

saagarjha 6y ago
That question doesn't really work: I mean, for you perhaps all meat is now the same and "gross", but there are many people who become vegetarian because of the ethical or environment aspects. I fail to see how it is far-fetched to assume that many of them would go back to eating meat if those concerns were resolved.
- floquet 6y ago
  The point of the question was more to address your surprise that there virtually all vegans would not eat lab-grown meat. (Sorry if I misunderstood your original post.) Yes, agree that maybe some vegans would go back to eating meat if it was lab-grown. But my guess is that most vegans (anecdotal going from the ones that I know) would not eat lab-grown meat, just like people in general probably wouldn't eat lab-grown human meat. I mean, if human meat is 'no-go', why would animal meat be ok? This is all from the perspective of being vegan for ethical reasons. If someone is vegan only for health or environmental reasons, then maybe they won't care so much. But my experience is that people that go vegan for health/environment quickly change to be more ethically focused. > Cells taken from “source” chickens are cultured in a laboratory And then there is also the discussion whether lab-grown meat actually resolves the ethical issues. I mean, in order to grow the meat the lab has to initially source some cells from animals. Any vegan for ethical reasons would oppose that.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    I know many vegetarian and vegans who are so for ethical reasons, but their ethics are that this causes pain and death to animals, not that meat is inherently unethical to eat. I am sure that there are vegans that would extend their logic to “this originally came from animals at some point therefore I can’t support it” but there are many who are specifically concerned by factory farming and such, which this would alleviate.
  - seba_dos1 6y ago
    Is lab-grown human meat 'no-go' though? I've heard that human meat doesn't taste very good and isn't healthy, so I likely wouldn't even try, but if I heard that it was the tastiest thing in the world I would certainly try a lab-grown one if I could and I don't see why I shouldn't. Also, no - vegans for ethical reasons don't necessarily have to oppose sourcing cells from animals. For some it would be enough if the sourcing was done cruelty-free. But you're right that the ethical issue is still there and I'm certain that some people will be still opposed to that.
cercatrova 6y ago
Why not, there's no ethical reason to oppose that. There was a guy who got his limb amputated and served the meat as tacos to his friends. That was completely legal and not unethical to do.

Would you eat lab-grown human meat? I've only been vegan for about 2 year now, but my current view is that meat is just gross. Being lab-grown only solves some ethical aspects, but is still gross.

saagarjha 6y ago

That question doesn't really work: I mean, for you perhaps all meat is now the same and "gross", but there are many people who become vegetarian because of the ethical or environment aspects. I fail to see how it is far-fetched to assume that many of them would go back to eating meat if those concerns were resolved.

floquet 6y ago
The point of the question was more to address your surprise that there virtually all vegans would not eat lab-grown meat. (Sorry if I misunderstood your original post.) Yes, agree that maybe some vegans would go back to eating meat if it was lab-grown. But my guess is that most vegans (anecdotal going from the ones that I know) would not eat lab-grown meat, just like people in general probably wouldn't eat lab-grown human meat. I mean, if human meat is 'no-go', why would animal meat be ok? This is all from the perspective of being vegan for ethical reasons. If someone is vegan only for health or environmental reasons, then maybe they won't care so much. But my experience is that people that go vegan for health/environment quickly change to be more ethically focused. > Cells taken from “source” chickens are cultured in a laboratory And then there is also the discussion whether lab-grown meat actually resolves the ethical issues. I mean, in order to grow the meat the lab has to initially source some cells from animals. Any vegan for ethical reasons would oppose that.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  I know many vegetarian and vegans who are so for ethical reasons, but their ethics are that this causes pain and death to animals, not that meat is inherently unethical to eat. I am sure that there are vegans that would extend their logic to “this originally came from animals at some point therefore I can’t support it” but there are many who are specifically concerned by factory farming and such, which this would alleviate.
- seba_dos1 6y ago
  Is lab-grown human meat 'no-go' though? I've heard that human meat doesn't taste very good and isn't healthy, so I likely wouldn't even try, but if I heard that it was the tastiest thing in the world I would certainly try a lab-grown one if I could and I don't see why I shouldn't. Also, no - vegans for ethical reasons don't necessarily have to oppose sourcing cells from animals. For some it would be enough if the sourcing was done cruelty-free. But you're right that the ethical issue is still there and I'm certain that some people will be still opposed to that.

cercatrova 6y ago

Why not, there's no ethical reason to oppose that. There was a guy who got his limb amputated and served the meat as tacos to his friends. That was completely legal and not unethical to do.