Would you eat lab-grown meat?

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  • Ruth - 12 years ago

    The real TRUTH underlying this debate is that we simply don't understand growing plants and animals and their relation to earth (soil) and the sun. We have lost a significant amount of nutrients in our food. Money has concentrated on yield (money) and has caused the "dilution effect". We also have caused the dimming of the sun which has weaken both our plants and animals. We have mined our soil as mercilessly as we have our fisheries, lumber stands, mines and aquifers. Our thoughtless and heartless hubrus has created a pathological narcissistical society that is simply not prepared to live with nature choosing to go to war with nature to satisfy our false and destructive wants. It seems we will not come to our senses until too many starve to death and nature (Mother Earth) repairs herself. History tells us that cultures can go extinct when they deplete their resources. Rome depleted its silver mines and its slave-labored plantations in north Africa.

  • Maggie Eisenberger - 12 years ago

    I thought the choices were very poorly worded and didn't get into everything a person might be considering in making their choice. I originally gave up eating red meat, decades ago, as a social justice issue - you can feed more people by skipping the animal and eating the grain yourself. Since then, I have learned much more about how terribly unhealthy a meat diet is and have even cut back on the amount of poultry I eat. I follow the guidelines for buying fish that is raised/caught in an environmentally responsible manner and eschew all others. I have certainly lost my taste for meat, so even if lab grown meat is free of cholesterol and all the other unhealthy components, I still wouldn't eat it but I wouldn't discourage others from doing so. There is no yuck factor, as far as I am concerned.

  • Kev_C - 12 years ago

    Big problem with this poll is that you don't actually get a true reflection of the public feeling. The questions are misleading and biased.
    As for the meat? Well as a fish eater I would sooner not try anything that a human has actually created in the industrial equivalent of a test tube thank you very much. After all I have anti-GM street cred to uphold here so pandering to synthetic biology, which is just as bad in my view, is definitely not the way to go regardless of all the arguments in its favour.

    We have far greater problems on this planet to resolve and feeding ourselves isn't one of them. The planet produces sufficient food to feed the entire population even today. It is the distribution and storage systems that let the side down:

    http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/problems/inadequate-food-distribution-systems

    But the real culprits in this current food war is not the burgeoning population but the speculators and the banks. After Reagan, Thatcher, Clinton et all deregulated food and fuel in the early 1990's it was inevitable that people would go hungry. It was also inevitable that speculators and bankers would get greedier and that food and fuel prices, stable for years would rise beyond many peoples means.
    Welcome to the real world of greed for money that is killing the people who cannot afford the readily available and plentiful food supply. With that thought in mind who needs another 'get rich quick' gimmick?

  • Liz - 12 years ago

    I agree with Dan. Your word choice may get a laugh, but it skews the poll and makes both omnivores and vegetarians sound rather freakish. I like both lentils and non-CAFO meat and don't trust the idea of lab meat, but I have no idea what box to check on your poll.

  • Dan - 12 years ago

    I fear your poll has been skewed by your word choice. I would prefer to eat authentic free range meat or wild meat whenever possible to avoid the chemicals pumped into animals by the meat industry. Stopped eating veal a long time ago as much as I loved it because of the way it was produced. I suspect vat meat will be tainted with even more chemicals than the meat we now buy in stores. Vat meat will give a whole new meaning to cube steak, I'm sure.

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