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Why would current-day vegans want it? Most of the vegans I know gag at the idea of eating meat. The real target market is current-day meat-eaters who wish, for
by wutbrodo 5y ago
Why would current-day vegans want it? Most of the vegans I know gag at the idea of eating meat.
The real target market is current-day meat-eaters who wish, for ethical or environmental reasons, that they ate less meat.
Or my position: that the industrial-scale torture of factory farms is a stain on humanity, but most people's consciences are too stunted to even engage with moral questions if it means changing their own behavior. In the presence of indistinguishable lab-grown meat, this argument against more ethical practices evaporates.
- xdennis 5y agoWhy would regular people want it? We already have real meat. Those who don't want it can stick to plants. It's risky to eat laboratory things without knowing the centuries long impact on people. > industrial-scale torture of factory farms So melodramatic. You can raise your own animals. > but most people's consciences are too stunted No, some people are so weak minded that they attribute human characteristics to animals to the point of wincing at the idea of a balanced omnivorous diet. You only find this permanent state of infantilization in first world countries. Even Buddhists in Tibet are perfectly happy to eat meat.
- conanite 5y agoI can submit a patch to an open-source project and everybody benefits ; but if I raise my own animals, the industrial-scale torture continues anyway. How many people need to raise their own animals before the abuse ends? It's not "weak-minded" or even melodramatic to conclude that an animal suffers when it is beaten. > Even Buddhists in Tibet are perfectly happy to eat meat. It is generally true that some adherents of religion X regularly do non-X things, in Tibet and elsewhere.
- daveed 5y agoIf the carbon footprint is less, I can see a lot of Millenials and Gen-Z-ers wanting to. We are, I believe, "regular people" as much as you are.