Invitro meat...what is that classified as ?!
Answers: If food engineers succeed in producing synthetic meat ( not from a living animal ) would vegetarians switch back to eating meat. What would an invitro meat eater be classified as.
This has been successfully done, using donor muscle cells from a living cow. The cells are cultured in a nutrient-rich broth and encouraged to multiply, resulting in sheets of meat which can be peeled off and ground up. I can definitely see this as a more ethical option for meat eaters who are uncomfortable with slaugher but not prepared to give up meat. For me, meat isn't food and I'd have no reason to go back. As for a name for people who only ate lab-grown meat? There isn't one yet, but if it ever hits the market on a widely-available scale, you can bet a word will be coined for it's fans.
I don't think there'd be any name for it... it would still be eating meat, in a sense. When the time comes a clever word for it will be made but for now it's a far-off thought.
Personally, I wouldn't switch back. I don't miss eating meat at all, and so I probably won't go back to eating it because essentially I just don't need it... all my recipes are vegan; meanwhile all my friends that come over, my family, coworkers, essentially everybody I know of is fine and comfortable with me being vegetarian so there's really no problem socially either... and it'd be about the same if I were to ask "Is this lab-made meat?" as if I were to ask "Is this vegetarian friendly?".
I'm curious as to whether making lab-grown meat would be as wasteful of resources as raising livestock is (16 pounds of grain to make a pound of meat, for instance). In this instance there'd be the expenses of such meticulous, scientific care, the lab expenses (power, employees, etc), the transport expenses and costs and impact on environment thereof.
A part of me still feels that the vegetarian option would be better anyway for those reasons.
Huh, with that kind of thinking I bet you wouldn't mind eating the leftover circumcision meat. They use is for skin grafts now you know. Next thing you know it could get classified as safe for human consumption and added as a filler to McD's!
You just never know!