Invitro meat and vegetarianism?!
If the current research into invitro meat proves to actually be able to produce an economic, humanitarian and environmentally viable option to convential meat production. Would you as a vegetarian consider consuming it? I realise that there are vegetarians out there who simply do not like the taste of meat, but many more make the lifestyle change out of ethical considerations. Therefore, if the ethical consideration is removed, in that meat can be produced without the death of animals, would you begin to eat meat again?
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No, because in vitro meats are not intended to be consumed by vegetarians. They are for all those meat heads who are too selfish to make a small sacrifice in order to benefit the environment and reduce the amount of suffering in the world. Personally I can't see how they will ever replace meat for the majority of meat eaters, since they WANT to eat meat and cultured tissues are not meat; they are just a group of cells. A muscle contains not only muscle cells, but also nerve cells, fats, connective tissue, blood and all the things which are in the blood (blood cells, steroids and other hormones, mineral nutrients etc). So how do you get all that into a cultured tissue in a way which will tempt someone unwilling to give up meat despite the abundance of evidence that it is unsustainable?
vegan biologist
No, due to the health hazards of animal fat and animal protein. Just one example of these health hazards: osteoporosis: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200… Also, in vitro meat is unnatural, and I prefer to eat whole foods or at least foods closer to being whole foods with a track record of consumption throughout human history. I would be concerned about the unintended consequences of something grown in a lab.
As a omnivore I would not even eat this, how could it even be called meat when it is glorified processed chemicals!!
Its like calling mechanically processed meat as fine dinning. As usual when scientists find new brake through s they are too quick to release it to be consumed in the general public. Look at cloning even tho it is a project that should be banned and buried due to the effects of cloning but no they continue even tho the animal will develop diseases and die young.
All scientist have done is causing more trouble than good I can only imagine that this will cause other health problems.
This again is a choice it does not mean that animals will never be consumed, what veg/vegans need to do is support more Organic and Free Range farms than leaving them on their own and letting Intensive and non organic farms to win!!!
wow great questions - been veggie for 29 yrs and i wouldn't eat this (i also don't touch quorn :) - i asked hubby who loves meat and even he said he wouldn't eat it!!
so that's a no from both sides of the fence.
I would personally never trust "grown" meat, just as I do not trust GM crops.
That said, "grown" meats would still have the same health detractors that standard-produced meats would, and I would still avoid it for those reasons.
Interesting question.
I think most people would at least consider it. Of course, the health concerns would remain, so many would not.
For me, I wouldn't eat it- but as a raw foodist it just doesn't seem appealing.
I would still be a vegetarian.
Simply meat is useless for human beings. We don't need meet so I wouldn't eat neither in vitro one.
No. I think it would not be ethical.