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Permalink Reply by Paul Reed on February 2, 2011 at 7:04pm

I don't see any problem with that. When you consider that currently, meat is produced in that way but with added pain etc, why not? The only objections I can think of are of the "playing God" variety.

 

On the other hand, there is still the issue of the carcass. If meat was produced pretty much 'on demand' (ie, grown in a lab) there would be no carcass hence less waste...

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on April 20, 2011 at 3:38pm

You would be doing humanity a great favor by (literally) having Beck for dinner, with all its inherent dangers.

To quote Spock: "The needs of the many outweigh that of the few or one." :)

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Permalink Reply by Bill on February 2, 2011 at 12:00pm

It seems strange to contemplate, but I have no trouble drinking large quantities of alcohol, which is produced using equipment that is uncannily similar to lab equipment.

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Permalink Reply by palebluejosh on February 2, 2011 at 7:27pm

you eat yogurt too?

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Permalink Reply by Jonel Burge on April 20, 2011 at 2:44pm

Cheese as well, especially anything from Kraft. We can also include Tofu, Tempeh, Natto, Nori, and stuff like Kimchi(which has raw oysters tossed into it to help "seed" the bacteria-process. Yummo).

I'm trying hard to think of an exact similarity--I could compare it to some protein-rich plants, as well as fungi, which we eat regularly. Lots of things are "living" to some point or another, some cheeses even incorporate molds into them somehow--It's just how things are, and how humans eat. I'd see this as just another iteration of our wide diet.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on April 21, 2011 at 12:11pm

Not everything that is natural is good, and not everything that is artificial is bad.

Disease is natural, vaccine isn't.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on April 22, 2011 at 1:02am

Disease is good, population control through disease is a perfectly valid system and has been tested and proven effective by time. We humans are obsessed with overpopulating the planet, therefore many humans dread disease as an affront to the mighty human intellect. That's actually sad. If we let disease take a little more of its natural course in populations, we wouldn't even need to have 1-child type laws, numbers would more easily self regulate. It's all about balance. We'd even create a positive feedback loop where people with diseases would reproduce less, creating less sick babies, and further reducing in a constant negative feedback loop. It is a testimony to only human greediness that drives the obsession with "treating" diseases.

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Permalink Reply by Akshay Bist on April 22, 2011 at 1:10am

hey even animals try to heal themselves the best they can. Of course they can't do much, other than link their wounds(saliva is a natural antiseptic) or eat grass(for roughage) when their stomach is upset. Don't you think an animal was sick & knew eating some plant would cure it, the animal wouldn't try and get that plant. Survival is a natural instinct.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on April 22, 2011 at 5:01pm

I see and accept your argument from a social/population perspective and raise you with attempting to employ the same argument from an individual's standpoint. :)

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on April 22, 2011 at 5:04pm

Tricky.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on April 22, 2011 at 7:22pm

In the end, we are all individuals. I can easily condone the death of others. Mine own, not so much.

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Permalink Reply by Marc Cunningham on April 24, 2011 at 1:25pm

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