Vegetarians/vegans: Would you be willing to eat it?
Side note: Have you been watching Adventure Time: Distant Lands? I only ask cuz of your name.
I'm surprised! The 1st episode is all about your namesake, the 2nd focuses on Princess Bubblegum and Marceline and there's gonna be 2 more sometime in the nearish future.
this already happened with vegetarian/vegan brands; so many of the "all natural" type brands are all 100% greenwashing brands for nestle/monsanto/cargill. and sure they're not using as much animal products, but they're also throwing shitloads of corn and soy in places it doesn't belong and generally just making the same sorts of processed crap fried in palm oil.
Right?! Like, sure, I have no moral or ethics problems with lab-grown meat, but I still wouldn't eat it, because meat is gross. Honestly, Beyond "meat" is a little far for me sometimes, and I've never tried Impossible, kind of no thanks on that whole thing, I'd rather a vegan patty that's obviously vegan.
did you like meat before you were or vegan or did you get disgusted by it after you went vegan?
just asking out of curiosity as someone who plans on going plant-based when I get my diet in checkyeah, that makes sense. animal products are honestly kinda disgusting in general, especially when they are so industrialized like in the present day. shit sucks.
110% support it. Uses less "feed", produces less greenhouse gases, no torturing of animals, and my personal favorite, bo microplastics and no funk ass growth hormones of other weird shit they pump livestock with to make them grow faster and be fatter and shit. At least drastically reduced microplastics. IDK if we cann ever go 100% microplastic free at this point. I imagine lab grown fish meat, if possible, would have the most positive reduction of microplastics and would actually give me cause to want to eat fish again.
With enough effort, it could probably get to the point that it would be impossible to tell it's not real. TBH we could probably be well on our way towards reducing the devastating effects of factory farming if the stranglehold of western capital didn't fuck literally every single thing up with insane IP mongering etc. etc. etc.
I look forward to it, because maybe then it would disturb the luxury food market
Like how China fucked over the fancy caviar dealers
Let's see how many rich people scream about Wagyu beef when all beef is Wagyu
Let’s see how many rich people scream about Wagyu beef when all beef is Wagyu
I know Wagyu is peak bourgeois, but can we take a moment to appreciate how the tiny land-poor nation of Japan created in 8 decades, what the entirety of Europe and its 5 continents' worth of land could not create in 400 years?
Assuming it will someday no longer require harvesting animal cells to produced, I personally look forward to ethical cat food bay-bee! :cat-vibing:
That said, I do not think it will replace 'real' meat until capitalists have stripped earth's resources to the point where it's impossible to farm livestock. Capitalists do not 'transition' markets, they only expand them.
Realistically, I have serious concerns that this will be another avenue to breed, farm, and harvest 'products' from the bodies of animals, reducing our perspective of them even further from living beings past steak/bacon/nugget and reduced alllll the way down to 'cell banks'.
I think that maybe her point was that the increasing demand for vegetarian "meat" doesn't decrease demand for real meat. Eventually they will have to transition because the current market production is unsustainable, but they won't do it because it is the right thing to do, they'll do it because meat production becomes unprofitable.
Oh, I thought she meant that, like, they just won't ever transition for any reason out of spite or something lol
I switched over to being vegetarian for health reasons (I was eating on average 4 cheeseburgers a day this time last year lmao) so I would probably have one to see what they're like and then go back to beans. I'm stoked for them to become a thing and put an dent to the meat industry as we know it, but cynical about their ability to meaningfully impact society because 100% chance they'll become just another culture war wedge issue between the soyboy democrats with their lab meat and the reel amerrikkkans with their cow meat.
i think every gym rat in the world would love a type of meat where you have larger control over the nutritional value. I would eat it if it was cheaper to produce or more high quality than other sources of protein. Hell i don't even care about the taste too much if it's a healthy, sustainable food source.
I wouldn't have any particular moral objections to it but I probably wouldn't eat it just because meat/animal stuff kinda grosses me out now. I am unsure it will replace current meat production methods because they're so entrenched and meat substitutes haven't impacted meat production as of yet, but it also has the capacity to revolutionize meat production, possibly urbanizing it and destroying most of the livestock-based meat industry (farms, slaughterhouses, butchers, etc.) which has some pretty fascinating implications.
It's cool but I'm still skeptical since I'm not sure if it would be any more environmentally friendly than being vegetarian or vegan.
I used to like meat well enough before I went vegetarian, but these days it's really gross to me. I even struggle with preparing some meat replacements like Impossible because it looks too real. I might try it but I won't add it to my diet.
No, I'd be too worried about being accidentally served actual, non lab grown animal parts. Also it's gross.
