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This is spot on. (I'm a long time vegetarian, so I've thought a lot about this.) Hunting, fishing, and even specialty slaughterhouses will likely continue. The
by paulirwin 5y ago
This is spot on. (I'm a long time vegetarian, so I've thought a lot about this.) Hunting, fishing, and even specialty slaughterhouses will likely continue. The economics will cause mass meat production to go out of business, though. Beef first, probably. Engineering can evolve much faster than cows and chickens and fish can.
No politician, at least in the U.S. mainstream, is going to commit political self-destruction by going after farmers and making animal meat illegal. What will likely happen though is once the big restaurant chains and grocery stores start selling lab-grown meat that is better quality and cheaper than animal meat, the market for cheap animal meat will dry up. We'll have politicians trying to "save beef jobs" just like they are trying to save coal jobs today, due to more efficient and environmentally-friendly alternatives taking over the market. But unlike coal, consumers can still choose animal meat (you can't exactly choose your power plant), so it might be a long transition due to that market demand. Expect the Arby's and ilk to continue to tout how they use "real meat" with hypermasculine advertising for a long time to come.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoThe ironic counter-ads will be viscious: "Be a real man! Risk getting sick from one of our real burgers! Each one is made from the hormone-pumped flesh of a real baby cow that never knew its real mom!"
- akoncius 5y ago"back in my days, salmonella wasn't a big deal anyway, these younglins are too fragile in modern times"
- nmz 5y agoSo basically White Castle?
- bart_spoon 5y agoSounds closer to Raw Water
- henrikschroder 5y ago"Think smaller. More legs."
- gowld 5y agoMeat advertisting/propaganda uses "Eat natural whole foods (ignoring all the unnaural things they do to the animals and meat), not processed fake meat foods". And to some extent, they have a point. But of course they don't invite you to eat natural whole plant foods instead of meat.
- BTCOG 5y agoHere's where I'd like to insert the friendly reminder that all plants are living beings. You, as a living being must eat other living beings. Plants are intelligent and pass information to eachother via the web of mycelium and other unknown ways. Morality about eating only living plants, vs eating meats has always been flawed. As were the arguments about eating pescatarian and only eating fish because they "are not intelligent and can't feel pain." Don't fool yourself. You are eating living beings and you are not on some goofy moral high horse.
- hervature 5y agoWhile I agree that not eating meat for moral reasons is pretty low on the list, (environmental and health reasons are so much more important) your argument reads like a pro-life argument. There is a clear distinction between having a nervous system and “passing information” with regards to intelligence. There’s a reason why we send people to jail for murder and not mowing their lawns.