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I expect we'll see a similar process with using animals for food. As our scientific knowledge increases, and as our needs increase, synthetic meats will become
by DanielBMarkham 15y ago
I expect we'll see a similar process with using animals for food. As our scientific knowledge increases, and as our needs increase, synthetic meats will become more and more attractive, eventually leaving us all meat-eaters who do not harvest animals.
Complex systems remind me of a theater set up for a complex play. Hundreds of ropes hang down from the ceiling. Somebody is always pleading us with us to pull rope A to make B happen.
Very rarely does pulling rope A actually make B happen (and nothing else) But we still like thinking things are simple like that.
- Lagged2Death 15y agoOne could even argue that it's already happened. Modern breeds of food animals are more or less "synthetic meats." They're much more efficient at converting feed into flesh than any natural animal is, and they'd have no chance of surviving in the wild.
- borism 15y agoI sure hope that's not what OP meant...
- Lagged2Death 15y agoI'm sure it's not.
- timwiseman 15y agoI think in the long term, you are right. But according to the ArsTechnica summary at http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/why-meat-from-a-petri-dish-is-still-a-long-way-from-the-supermarket.ars http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/why-meat-from-a-... that may be quite a long term.