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More patented life and another food product I plan to avoid. I wonder if the average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetic

• jsnodlin 5y ago
  Not in the least. What’s so disgusting about it? Totally concerned about “patented life” however.
• ekianjo 5y ago
  > average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetically modfied meat as I am. And yet people seem to be interested in lab-produced meat alternatives that use synthetic blood-like formula to make it taste like actual meat?
  • rtpg 5y ago
    Right because of the idea that you can look at lab produced meat and feel like there is basically no suffering involved.
  • ticviking 5y ago
    Most meat alternatives sit on the shelves around here even when we have people stocking up for severe weather and there's nothing else left.
• awb 5y ago
  Price tends to be a big persuader.
• kmlx 5y ago
  > I wonder if the average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetically modfied meat as I am. quite the contrary. i think this should be celebrated as a great achievement and will happily eat it if it’s delicious :P
• diffeomorphism 5y ago
  > I wonder if the average consumer will be as disgusted and turned off by the idea of eating genetically modfied meat as I am. To me that sounds like being turned off by it containing dihydrogen monoxide. That is kind of a shame because the "patented life" angle is a real, serious problem worth attention but bundling it with shallow/trivial criticism like "turned off" (it literally tastes the same) makes it easy to dismiss.