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You have got to be trolling. You just said that the purpose of animals are to be eaten. Okay, maybe some animals and maybe our society condones meat-eating. But
by leoh 13y ago
You have got to be trolling. You just said that the purpose of animals are to be eaten. Okay, maybe some animals and maybe our society condones meat-eating. But you cannot possibly allow this as absolute reality. Some very productive, peaceful, societies (pre-Modern China) were almost completely vegetarian. Vegatarianism is a possibility.
Now, regarding artificial meat. It's weird. But people will not hangs their habits right now. It is possible, but it won't happen right now. Maybe the best startup or business idea that could ever exist is helping people to change. But the thing is, it is hard to change. And as many teachers and successful people say, you can only lead people to a door, you can't make them open it.
But with this artificial meat. So we can't make people change. We can't fight highly unethical current practice by charging the same or lower than them. We maybe can change legislation, but that is also very hard because these industries are very powerful.
So we can't change what people eat, can't convince them based on price, and can't change the way animals are treated.
But we can change the way the product is produced that we are already eating en-masse. And it might be weird. But who knows, it's a gamble. But artificial meat could work.
- pearjuice 13y agoI would rather have vegatarianism as an absolute reality than one where artificial meat is the standard. In fact, I will become a vegetarian if the latter applies.
- hmsimha 13y agoIf everyone had switched to vegetarianism at the same time, we probably wouldn't be in a situation where scientists are trying to develop artificial meat. In fact, I would suggest that if you want to do your part to prevent this from becoming a reality you should go ahead and switch to vegetarianism right now :D If everyone does it, it might not be viewed as cost-effective to continue this research.
- pearjuice 13y agoNo I will not because I can still eat real 100% natural meat which has been dealt with properly.