Thorough and enlightening. I can see no ethical problem with eating meat. Animals are quite prepared to eat other animals and indeed humans. I think a carniverous diet is potentially healthier than any other. What matters is the quality of the meat, and respect for the animal. Cultivated meat creates distance between man and nature. Life is brutal and messy. No 'change of beliefs' will change that reality.
Food innovators often (very often, or always?) stand to make a profit. Thus they cannot be advocates in the true sense of the word.
Why have faith in 'cultivated meat, which is made from animal cells grown in a brewery-style bioreactor'? The notion is just too hairbrained and new, and the big corporations behind it are not exactly trustworthy.
Maybe in a 100 years, when we might get a look at people who have subsisted on it, I'd consider digesting a Bill Gates-backed 'Impossible Buger', but I'll be dead then.
On top of all that, there's so much interesting, delicious cuisine out there to try. In Spain for instance, which you know well, think of the variety in that nation alone! If this 'cultivated' stuff became common-place, that would only contribute to the unspicing of life. Who would want to see this stuff appear as a tapa...
Thorough and enlightening. I can see no ethical problem with eating meat. Animals are quite prepared to eat other animals and indeed humans. I think a carniverous diet is potentially healthier than any other. What matters is the quality of the meat, and respect for the animal. Cultivated meat creates distance between man and nature. Life is brutal and messy. No 'change of beliefs' will change that reality.
Food innovators often (very often, or always?) stand to make a profit. Thus they cannot be advocates in the true sense of the word.
Thanks for reading!
I'm not sure if you mean "creates distance between man and nature" is a good thing or a bad thing?
To me, it's way preferable to intensive animal (or "factory") farming, which is unnatural too.
You're welcome, Nick.
The distance makes for unhappiness and so a bad thing I should say.
Factory farming seems cruel and, to be sure, the product is woeful! But I see no answer to this problem in alternative meats.
Why not?
Why have faith in 'cultivated meat, which is made from animal cells grown in a brewery-style bioreactor'? The notion is just too hairbrained and new, and the big corporations behind it are not exactly trustworthy.
Maybe in a 100 years, when we might get a look at people who have subsisted on it, I'd consider digesting a Bill Gates-backed 'Impossible Buger', but I'll be dead then.
On top of all that, there's so much interesting, delicious cuisine out there to try. In Spain for instance, which you know well, think of the variety in that nation alone! If this 'cultivated' stuff became common-place, that would only contribute to the unspicing of life. Who would want to see this stuff appear as a tapa...
I'd say, keep an open mind. As you point out, there's so much food in the world to try. This will be another new thing.