Just wondering what the consensus would be. Is it good and fine (if you like the taste, of course) because it is truly 100% vegan? Or would y'all consider it a horrifying simulacrum of a product of cruelty towards animals?
I am asking because I'm a vegan chef and I was excited to find out that they're making animal-free "dairy" milk through bacterial/fungal fermentation, because plant based "milks" don't really work the same as cow milk does. And theoretically if it has the right proteins/fats it could be used to make vegan cheese that has the actual properties of cheese? So like I think it's very exciting personally. But I'd like to know what others think before I suggest we try to order some, since it'd be a waste if nobody actually wanted to eat anything made with it.
Sure. I'm vegan because animals don't want to die. I'm totally cool with synthesized food (as long as it doesn't need fetal bovine serum, etc). But on a practical level, I can't see "lab-grown" anything becoming cheaper than animal products for a long time, because biology is just so efficient. A lot of the substitutes out there, I consider the $6 pint of fake ice cream and I instead pay $3 for a quart of Italian ice.