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When Will Our Meat-Filled Diets Go Post-Animal?
The hamburger is a nearly complete reflection of America through the 20th century. Popularized by White Castle and McDonald's, burgers only became the cheap, fast food we know and love in concert with improvements in food preservation, mass production lines, long-distance freight, and agricultural yields. This efficiency led to excess: Red meat consumption rose through the mid-1900s until it was overtaken by America’s love affair with chicken over the last few decades.
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I think that the writer is wrong to think no one will eat meat grown in a test tube. Personally, I'm looking forward to it. Growing eggs without a bird though,nowthat will be tough!
However, this begs the question no one seems to be asking,which is what happens to all the millions of unwanted food animals? Extinction? Zoos? Sanctuaries?