Poll: Would you eat in vitro meat?

[Meatspinner]

Depends if it has any nutritional value. Not to hot on eating the "Diet Coke" equivalent of meat products

Isn't Diet Coke worse than regular Coke? Also,is that an 8 bit Spy from TF2?

It's MegaSpy and his Mega Buster arm knife

Yeah, they replaced the sugar with artificial sweeteners which ended up being bad for you.
But at least it saved the owners some money

 

[Thyunda]

I eat meat, but I already dislike the idea of processed meat. I don't want lab grown meat either. Why? I think it has something to do with it being unnatural, and very unhealthy.
Sketchy, and yes I do prefer to slay my beasts and eat them. Its natural, and natural trumps man-made.

Except for clothing. And flight. And medicine. And shelter. And transport.

 

[tahrey]

Cheap, good quality, better for the environment, AND removes the slaughterhouse guilt?

Bring it on.

As long as it tastes fine, I see no problems with this. If I'm ok with eating dead animals, why wouldn't I be ok with eating never alive animals?

Race you to be the first to chow down on cloned guinea pig kebab?

Actually, think about the culinary possibilities this opens up, seeing as the last I saw of this was bascially "3D printing with cloned cells". It's like mechanically recovered and reformed meat in reverse. Nuggets, drummers and twizzlers without the abbatoir-floor-sweepings Ick Factor. Want a piece of broccoli that's actually made of and tastes like chicken, but still has a good dose of fibre and vitamins incorporated into it? It's yours! How about an apple that, as you munch your way around it, delivers all the flavours and nutrition of a beef sunday roast in miniature? Why not!

Holy shit, it's Wonka's bubblegum dinners come to life O_O

 

[Risingblade]

If it tastes the same yeah and I really do mean taste the same not that diet tastes just like regular crap.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I eat meat, but I already dislike the idea of processed meat. I don't want lab grown meat either. Why? I think it has something to do with it being unnatural, and very unhealthy.
Sketchy, and yes I do prefer to slay my beasts and eat them. Its natural, and natural trumps man-made for food/nourishment.

Except for clothing. And flight. And medicine. And shelter. And transport.

Let me FIX this for you since I wasn't clear.

 

[Willinium]

If it tasted good than of course I would. Though I would have to ponder that if we aren't predating off the animals won't they over populate forcing us to put them either massicuring them or taking them to say *shrugs* I son't know India?

 

[pillywiggins]

I eat meat, but I already dislike the idea of processed meat. I don't want lab grown meat either. Why? I think it has something to do with it being unnatural, and very unhealthy.
Sketchy, and yes I do prefer to slay my beasts and eat them. Its natural, and natural trumps man-made for food/nourishment.

Except for clothing. And flight. And medicine. And shelter. And transport.

Let me FIX this for you since I wasn't clear.

I wasn't going to comment on the "natural" thing at first since you obviously were just talking in context of food, but since someone else has gone for it now, I would just like to point out that "natural" also includes poisonous snakes, sulfur, funnel webs, rockslides and meteors, none of which are very good for you

... I'm sorry, I'll just be leaving now.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

If it tastes the same and has the same nutritional benefits, I would eat it.

 

[Mr F.]

Well...

Hmm.

Its like meat, without the ethical quandaries. The only important question will be "Does lab bacon taste as good as real bacon?" If so, bring on the lab meat!

 

[mitchell271]

As long as it doesn't kill me and isn't Soylent Green, I'm cool with that.
captcha: look away. Captcha's getting sentient!

 

[game-lover]

Yeah. I don't see why not.

And if it'll keep us from having to eat insects, I say go for it.

 

[McMullen]

On the other hand, somehow I would still feel a lot more comfortable eating meat from an animal that I knew had been raised on decent feed, in an environment that allowed it to live well and all that. I'd know to a reasonable degree of certainty where said animal came from, and what had been done to it throughout its life, and the process of turning it into meat for consumption.

How sure are you now that your meat comes from the conditions you describe? It seems as though you trust the livestock industry to keep things as clean and humane as they say they do, but not the engineers. Why is that? Why is having your meat grown in a lab more gross than a pasture? If nothing else, there's probably a lot less manure in the lab.

 

[Screamarie]

As long as it's tested to be safe for human consumption, tastes good, and isn't so expensive that I don't have to lop off limbs at the butcher counter I'm fine with it.

In fact I'd like to be able to stop eating animals, I know that it makes me hypocritical that I find myself only able to eat animals that have been killed by someone else and I'm kind of only willing to eat animals that aren't especially cute and all that and I do love animals and wish I could be a vegetarian and live in harmony with all the animals and rainbows and unicorns and all that.

But I also know I'm a omnivore and I don't feel there's anything wrong with eating animals because I am, just like them, an animal.

 

[Jenvas1306]

meat that didnt need to be cut out of a living, feeling being? I am just waiting for that.
if its less natural than the meat you get in your local supermarket today? no not really, what is done to animals to raisethem quick and cheap and then how to 'process them fast is in no way natural.
you only get natural meat if you go out and hunt down an animal for it.
In vitro meat would be fine for me even if it tasted a little different (I like schnitzel made from milkprotein and stuff like that). By time we sure cant replicate the differences in muscle tissue that was used differently and break down the taste in its most basic components, to then recombine those into things that wouldnt exist otherwise.
No life has to be taken for your superhealthy steak, with its perfect fat distribution and that fat is even more healthy.

such research also brings new knowledge about how to grow tissues, which will help in medical fields.

 

[Brotha Desmond]

Even if it can be done effectively and cheaply doesn't necessarily mean that it should be consumed. It could turn out being like how most chickens are today. All they do is sit around in the dark given an un-natural diet and pumped full of antibiotics and others thing that are toxic when consumed, just to make them look plumper. If it was not once alive and healthy I will be unable to convince myself that it is completely safe to eat.

 

[AlexWinter]

Are you telling me that it's possible to grow meat?

That's astounding.

I'm assuming that this means:

Cleaner meat - no more shit or bones or other animals in it, right?
No slaughter - mass reduction in vegetarians, right? I can stop feeling guilty about eating lamb now?

Frankly I don't give a shit if it doesn't taste as good as "real" meat on its own, there'll certainly be some recipes out there that make the most of it and this sounds like a major advancement into Futureworld.

 

[Aramis Night]

Yes, please let it be that way! The alternative would be either bugs, which is still okay, but the third option would be to produce meat from our feces salvaged from the sewage.

I prefer the option of our own excess live young. Seems like a better option than eating our own excrement or bugs.

We don't have excess live young, at-least not in the west, with our falling birth rates we need every baby we can get!

OT: No real problems with vitro meat, as long as it tastes good and is cost-effective. Hell, they could grow meat from animals that aren't usually farmed for environmental, traditional or economic reasons... who's up for Elephant burger?

What could we possibly need more babies for? To replace ourselves? Why do we need to replace ourselves? We don't have the resources to take care of the people we have now without a complete restructuring of how we live. And since we aren't willing to commit to that as a species, we should limit birth rates drastically.

At least by cannibalizing our young we make them a resource rather than a drain on the rest of our resources. Preferably by harvesting them in the womb before they gain consciousness(i'm not cruel).

Babies are barely conscious when they are born so that's hardly an issue, however limiting birth rates drastically would be a terrible move. We need young workers to support our economy and pay our pensions in our old age, or do you want to keep on working until you literally drop dead?

Why not have people pay for their own pensions like they are supposed to. Why choose instead to be parasites to the younger generation. A healthy economy is based on trade of goods and services. You only need 2 people for that. Not 8+ billion.
As for working till we drop dead. That is what the vast majority of people did throughout history and many people across the world still do. I'd venture to guess most people in fact, assuming they are able to get employment at all since now they have to compete against 8+ billion other people for a job. It seems like an incredibly entitled attitude to believe that you should not have to work to support yourself your whole life.

1. You don't understand how pensions work (or what they are for that matter) if you think people don't pay for their own pensions.
2. You don't understand what an economy is if you think less people improves an economy.
3. You don't understand how macroeconomics work if you think global competition reduces chance of employment.

And the majority of people also had a life expectancy of 20, were illiterate, uneducated, violent, and stupid. Our goal is to move away from that, you're welcome to join us, or you can burn up your pension and keep living in the bronze age. And while a lovely age it was, it kind of sucked to have to live in it.

If people pay for their own pensions then it shouldn't matter how many younger people there are. If you are funding your own retirement, why would that even be a factor? Unless you're defending unfunded pensions which are entirely what i take issue with.

How does more people improve an economy? We have more people now than in any point in human history and yet for some odd reason the world economy is in the toilet vs. 60 yrs ago when we had about half as many people alive and a much better economy. You can stick to whatever economic theory you like but the reality is all around us.

And clearly global competition does reduce chance of employment. It also reduces your chance of making a living wage or having a civilized standard of living should you become employed. The more possible applicants for a position the more the applicants are put in the position of undercutting each other in pay and benefits to get the job. It is the whole concept of it being an employers job market at the moment. A pretty well accepted fact.

And i didn't realize the bronze age lasted until the early-mid 1900's when pensions became common in western countries. I also was unaware that 20 was the average lifespan in the last century. And thank you for educating me about the rampant illiteracy of that time as well. I am a little confused how we had mandatory public schooling most of last century at the minimum and yet somehow we are all uneducated. We didn't even have no child left behind policies yet(also known as no child gets ahead). Seems strange to me but i guess its goes hand in hand with all the illiteracy we must have had.

Violent. I'll grant you that we were rather violent last century. Always with our wars, just like..... oh wait... JUST LIKE NOW!!!

As for stupid. Well, we didn't have the internet in every house yet so i wouldnt say its safe to make a comparison. To be fair i don't think anyone can honestly believe that we are any more or less stupid now vs. then. It's a wash.

 

[regalphantom]

Depends largely on A) Flavor, and B) the process. The flavor factor should be obvious (that being said, chicken is pretty bland until you do something to it, and I eat a ton of chicken) but as for the process it depends on what sort of chemicals are retained in the meat. If the meat contains an unhealthy level of hormones or other chemicals I couldn't justify it due to the harm it could do to my body. If those two concerns can be addressed, I would never eat another killed animal again (assuming this is affordable). However, I think that something that people tend to forget is that SOMETHING would have to happen to all the animals currently alive for consumption purposes if artificially grown meat took off like hotcakes.