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Lab-grown meat sounds dystopic. Imagine a giant machine shitting out nutrient bricks forever. Plant-based meat substitutes are ridiculous. Americans, North and
by cheese_goddess 5y ago
Lab-grown meat sounds dystopic. Imagine a giant machine shitting out nutrient bricks forever.
Plant-based meat substitutes are ridiculous. Americans, North and South, eat way too much meat (Europeans eat much less). To cut down on the extravagant amounts of meat consumed in the Americas is a great idea, but why do those need to be replaced with meat substitutes? Teach people to cook good food with plants, otherwise you're just keeping them dependent on the food industry that just wants to sell them cheap overprocessed shit that makes them sick and sad.
- null_shift 5y agoSystematic animal torture sounds dystopic. Why not attack that from all angles? Convince people to eat less meat and more vegetables…sure. But you will still have holdouts saying that they prefer the taste of meat. Hence plant based meat alternatives and lab grown meat. There can be multiple solutions to a given problem.
- cheese_goddess 5y ago> Systematic animal torture sounds dystopic. I agree on principle but I'm not sure what you mean by "systematic animal torture". For example, for me industrial farming is just that, but small-scale farming (where herds are no larger than a few dozen animals, for cows, more for goats and sheep) are not. So I think we'll disagree on that. Basically, I think some people find eating animals dystopic regardless of how it's done, while I don't.
- null_shift 5y agosorry i should have been more clear, my comment was referring to factory farming specifically. i agree that small scale farming can be done in a more humane, ethical way. unfortunately, it does not scale to meet global food demand.