‘The introduction of lab-grown meat is inevitable and we should have our say on the issue to steer the technology in the most ethical direction possible. I also believe that if certain conditions are met vegans could support lab-grown meat in a bid to reduce harm to animals and for the benefit of the environment.’
from the article, Should Vegans Support Lab Grown Meat?
So, vegans face the question, would we be happy for a small number of animals to suffer to save the billions of animals that would suffer and die under the current agriculture industry? I believe the opinions would be heavily divided.
Lab meat promoters and these vegans are equally warped, in my estimation. It is a “dilemma” for which I have no appetite.
‘We last swam in the same gene pool with the animals that evolved into fish about 460 million years ago, more than 100 million years before we split from birds. The notion that we are kin across this expanse of time has proved too radical for some, which is one reason the ever-changing universe described by Darwin has been slow to lodge in the collective human consciousness. And yet, our hands are converted fins, our hiccups the relics of gill-breathing.’
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/what-the-crow-knows/580726/
Can a capitalist frying pan of alt burgers, chicken nuggets, fish cakes, weiners or sausages save the world? It will energize the technological process for better or worse but will it turn out to be the real deal?
Below is the link to an in-depth piece on the American style R&D going on in this super charged investor arena.
“I learned early on that consumers don’t want a lot of soy, because they’re worried about phytoestrogen, the concern being that it disrupts hormones and gives you ‘man boobs.’ ” I observed that there was no evidence that this ever happens unless you consume soy in gigantic amounts. “I don’t believe in the man-boobs theory,” he said, “but who am I to question our customers?” Ethan Brown
“If you could just reforest all the grazing land, 1.2 billion hectares, giving up all beef would be the most effective thing we could do for the planet.” Tim Searchinger has calculated that if you reduced beef consumption by three-fourths (allowing for some pastoral nomadism and dairy cows later used for beef) and reforested accordingly it would reduce global G.H.G. emissions by about twenty per cent.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/can-a-burger-help-solve-climate-change