Recently tried an Impossible burger and nuggets and thought that if nobody told me it wasn’t meat, I’d have thought the patty was made out of a weird kind of meat, rather than make a connection with the taste and texture of plants. Honestly, I might not complain if that was the only kind of “meat” I could have for the rest of my life.
Well, maybe I’d miss bacon.
I’ve yet to find the opportunity to try lab-grown meat, but I for sure would like to try it out and don’t see much wrong with it as long as it’s sustainable, reasonably priced, and doesn’t have anything you wouldn’t expect in a normal piece of meat.
Also, with imitation and lab-grown options, I’d no longer have to deal with the disgust factor of handling raw meat (esp. the juices) or biting into gristle. I’ll happily devour a hot dog, but something about an unexpected bit of cartilage gives me a lingering sense of revulsion.
Uuh I like this question :D I have thought about it because I am vegan and tried figuring out whether I’d be interested in it, and I have no issue to admit that I sometimes crave the taste of meat, while being repulsed by it another time. After you don’t eat meat for a whule you become aware of flavours that you didn’t notice before, and there is an undertone of rot. No, it was not off, it was a majority of meats when I followed a flexitarian diet years ago. So would I eat it? Eh… Likely not? I wouldn’t consider it vegan since you’d have to get DNA samples from live animals still to grow the meat, which to me is an unnecessary stress to the animal. But I don’t want to dismiss the idea either if it means a rapid decline in livestock and carbon emissions and of course, less animal suffering.
Lab grown meat requires fetal animal serum. It’s the biggest bullshit scam for animal lovers.
I read your other comment on it. What a discouraging fact, but so important to know.
A good thing is that one sample of dna would last indefinitely so it is minimal damage. Not saying it is not a problem at all but atleast it is not systemic and continous exploitation.