If you're avoiding meat purely for ethical reasons, take a closer look at the practices of the specific company you want to try a product from before buying. Many still use fetal bovine serum to grow their meat, meaning it's still reliant on industrial ranching and the slaughter of animals.
Some companies are working to remove the need for FBS. Without this step, lab grown meat isn't really an improvement, though it is an incremental step away from the harms caused by industrial ranching.
This here machine might tempt me to let my ethics slide a bit, but the potential climatic impact of a mature technology is a different ethical consideration. The current gen is still very energy hungry but it's also not really gone to market. If it can save our ecology by replacing the current industry, then we get the inverse of our typical moral dilemma: That we create suffering now to alleviate more of it later.
Honestly I don't see much of a reason to add lab-grown meat to my diet and the ethical issues are a part of that - and I will always prioritize degrowth - but I do see opportunity in this tech for those who are not willing to "sacrifice" their habits as much as I am.
If you're avoiding meat purely for ethical reasons, take a closer look at the practices of the specific company you want to try a product from before buying. Many still use fetal bovine serum to grow their meat, meaning it's still reliant on industrial ranching and the slaughter of animals.
Some companies are working to remove the need for FBS. Without this step, lab grown meat isn't really an improvement, though it is an incremental step away from the harms caused by industrial ranching.
This here machine might tempt me to let my ethics slide a bit, but the potential climatic impact of a mature technology is a different ethical consideration. The current gen is still very energy hungry but it's also not really gone to market. If it can save our ecology by replacing the current industry, then we get the inverse of our typical moral dilemma: That we create suffering now to alleviate more of it later.
Honestly I don't see much of a reason to add lab-grown meat to my diet and the ethical issues are a part of that - and I will always prioritize degrowth - but I do see opportunity in this tech for those who are not willing to "sacrifice" their habits as much as I am.