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Why your burger should be grown in a lab
Isha Datar says the in-vitro hamburger bypasses Big Food and animal slaughter, and helps the environment.
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The big question is, would you eat it? I know there would be a certain level of disgust knowing that the meat I am consuming was grown in a petri dish the same way that scientists grow bacteria and viruses.
My rule of thumb is this: If I don't know if the burger/steak is a real animal or lab meat, and it tastes just as good, then why should I care where it came from? If I can't tell a difference then it's not a problem.
Don't get me wrong, I love the concept and I feel it is the right course when it comes to sustainability as well as fact that we wouldn't be slaughtering so many poor poor animals. But I think we still have a while to go before people get used to the concept of this type of meat.
Agreed.
I'd rather eat something grown from a petri dish than a slaughtered animal. Eating a living creature seems much more disgusting to me. Why do we find eating dogs so appalling yet don't think twice about eating pigs? Extensive evidence shows that pigs are just as smart and sociable as dogs. I think it's time we put in the effort and research to find better alternatives to the slaughtering of animals for food. I'd go vegetarian right now but the options are limited, and because my protein needs are so high it adds to the difficulty. There's a ton of soy protein options but ingesting too much soy protein can have a negative impact on your body. The day this in-vitro meat goes public I will most definitely be switching over to that.
I think the problem is that us humans are extremely hard to convince when it comes to change. Dead animals? Sure, we get it, were used to it, we have been doing it for thousands of years. Our brains are wired to understand it and accept it. We are carnivores, just like the built in want for sex is there, the need for a good burger is almost instinctual in most of us. This will be an uphill battle, but give it some time and we might be able to make a difference.