But we have literally no need to do it. Lab grown meat requires the same level of input as industrial cricket or worm farming per gram of protein and produces fat at the same time while being far more palatable.
There’s no need to go back to famine era stone age practices to solve the ethical and environmental problems of meat eating.
I see no problem at all with lab-grown meat being the solution, but I would push back a bit on the notion that eating bugs is inherently unpalatable. The truth is that what makes eating bugs unpalatable is our current habits and inclinations think of this as being inherently “icky”, save for certain species that come from the sea. Changing these habits would not only switch us to consuming animal protein with fewer ethical and environmental issues, but also would open us up to new culinary experiences which we are currently depriving ourselves.
Having said that, I have never tried hard to overcome my own habits and inclinations, even though I probably should, so I am not going to judge anyone else for not having done so; the above paragraph is a musing rather than me trying to dictate anything to other people.
Or we can simply eat beans, tofu or any of the dozens of plant protein sources. I don’t get why people are so dead set on stuffing some animal part into their mouths.
Because it’s tasty. Because we have a few million year history of eating it and it satisfies a deep itch in our consciousness.
The only issues with meat are the ethical concerns and the environmental issues, both of which are eliminated with lab meat. We get the taste without the pointless suffering.
Not everyone likes plant proteins as a sole source, and that’s okay.
But we have literally no need to do it. Lab grown meat requires the same level of input as industrial cricket or worm farming per gram of protein and produces fat at the same time while being far more palatable.
There’s no need to go back to famine era stone age practices to solve the ethical and environmental problems of meat eating.
I see no problem at all with lab-grown meat being the solution, but I would push back a bit on the notion that eating bugs is inherently unpalatable. The truth is that what makes eating bugs unpalatable is our current habits and inclinations think of this as being inherently “icky”, save for certain species that come from the sea. Changing these habits would not only switch us to consuming animal protein with fewer ethical and environmental issues, but also would open us up to new culinary experiences which we are currently depriving ourselves.
Having said that, I have never tried hard to overcome my own habits and inclinations, even though I probably should, so I am not going to judge anyone else for not having done so; the above paragraph is a musing rather than me trying to dictate anything to other people.
Or we can simply eat beans, tofu or any of the dozens of plant protein sources. I don’t get why people are so dead set on stuffing some animal part into their mouths.
Because it’s tasty. Because we have a few million year history of eating it and it satisfies a deep itch in our consciousness.
The only issues with meat are the ethical concerns and the environmental issues, both of which are eliminated with lab meat. We get the taste without the pointless suffering.
Not everyone likes plant proteins as a sole source, and that’s okay.