Vegaterians; would you eat meat if...?!

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No! I also wouldn't believe a biased text book about biology. I have better things to do with my life than eat meat even if it may come from an umbilical cord that was cloned.

Vegan because animals are not property

There is no way that I would personally turn to eating meat, cooked or raw.
I have abstained from eating meat for over 30 years and now when there are
people around me who get stuck into a meat pie - I am sick. Did you know
that meat stinks when it is raw and particularly when it is cooked.

Are you a Vegetarian or thinking of switching your diet back to eating meat?

I have written 2 articles on Meat and Vegetarianism.

1. Meat Eaters Versus Vegetarians

2. The Sacrilege of Eating Animals

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Once they can grow meat without harming animals, I'll eat it. I loved chicken and beef before I went veggo, but my conscience couldn't handle killing innocent creatures just so I could eat them.

People should become more accepting of genetically modified food. believe it or not it isn't 'fake' or 'unnatural', it consists of injecting an embryo with a certain genetic trait, and they will be born naturally, but carrying the trait they were injected with. If done properly it could have the potential to solve world hunger.

Seriously, no.
I don't eat meat because it's not a natural food for humans to eat. We don't have a short smooth i ntestine like meat eating animals, we don't have fangs like meat eating animals, and we don't have the gastric juices to suck salt and fat out of the meat , like meat eating animals.
Our intestine is designed to suck water and vitamins out of plant foods- like all plant eating animals.

I don't love the taste of meat so much I'd eat it, it's like plastic in my gut.

I actually love what I'm eating now :)

BUT I think that's much preferable to other people killing animals for meat and would be ecstatic if they could actually do that.

Also concerned with what cheaper meat has done for America, and hope it will not lead to 2/3 of the whole world being over weight. (Right now, world obesity is about 10%)

And I was not offended in the least :)

Vegan for life

As a long term (30+ years) vegetarian, I can't believe that people would be that desperate to eat meat.

Also, on the tooth business - have a look at a true omnivore's teeth - my teeth are nothing like a dog's. I have incisors to break seeds and nuts (they're not only designed for ripping flesh), and molars to grind them. Also, I have a long digestive tract and mild digestive juices, whereas omnivores have a short one with very strong digestive juices.

NO .. I would not eat 'meat' produced artificially from stem cells
in the same way that I don't eat 'Genetically Modified' food.
We have NO IDEA what the long term affects on us eating it is !!!
Would you put something 'modified' at a genetic level
or something 'produced artificially' in your mouth .. and swallow it?

no, i don't really miss meat and i'm sure it would be expensive and unhealthy.it would probably use a lot of resources to make too, which would off put the environmental factor.

i also don't know what kind of side effects this would cause. sure they could test it in a lab but we wont really know until people have been eating it for a couple of years. at least that's how it seems to work with current medicines.

No, because as Geezer said it's not natural. We have friends who raise cows free range, organic and natural. I know the source of that meat. (They also buy eggs, cheese, and poultry from local farmers with similar values.) I would eat that long before I would eat the lab junk. These people are continuing to play God (more so than what people in conventional meat industry do) and I don' think it would turn out well.

No offense, but GMOs--including in vitro meat--are extremely dangerous. They should be illegal. The only reason they aren't is because of who's in charge at the FDA. There are ways of raising livestock that are sustainable, ethical, and safe. Those are the practices we need to be following, not this.

Nope, it's totally fake and not from nature. People who are vegetarians for ethical reasons probably are a lot more likely too. I don't eat meat just because I don't like the taste of it, so I would have no reason to eat fake meat over real meat.

possibly, the only reason im a vegetarian is ethical reasons (animal welfare and helping the environment)but i would need more information before i say yes.

I would still be a vegetarian.

Vegetarian since birth

I don't think ANYBODY would eat that unless they were starving to death or weren't told what it was. That's pretty disturbing.

Not sure. I guess I'll make the choice then. Until then, I will continue to eat vegetarian. :)

Nope. Gross.

No. That's gross.

No!

It sounds like a good idea for those who love meat, to save our animals...
But, no. It seems still unhealthy. I gave up meat first because I love the animals, then I stayed on veganism because we don't NEED meat, and I've found even blood tests to be healthier than they where when on the Standard American Diet with meat in it. Maybe "blood tests" are fine for people who live with meat, but either way, if there is other ways to get my nutrition in a way that feels wholesome and natural, and the way that totally improved my workouts at the gym.
Harming an animal or not, I'm a raw vegan.

So basically it's an artificial animal created by scientists? Well there wouldn't be any B12 in it, which is what most omnivores look to as their reason for eating meat, because the animal doesn't graze or consume any soil. Meat is unhealthy as it is, I can only imagine the nutrition facts on a piece of artificial meat. The reason most omnivores give for eating meat is "our ancestors did it to survive because there were no plants," well then there would be no point in eating meat since it would be more trouble to create it. Nutrients don't just randomly appear in flesh, the animals get them from eating plants and giving themselves nutrition. I would prefer that omnivores eat your kind of meat than what they are eating now for the sake of the animals and the environment. One more thing, animals would have to be mass produced to provide stem cells for creating the artificial meat. Everything would revert back to how it is now because people would not feel like going through this whole process. It's a better idea than killing an animal though. Regardless, I still wouldn't eat it.

Such products aren't actually aimed at vegetarians, they are necessary to reduce the environmental impacts of producing meat from livestock which at current rates are unsustainable. It is not suitable for vegetarians as they need to harvest live cells from animals to culture the cells in the first place. Let's say one day they do grow a real "chicken little", and no longer need to use cells from live animals.

I also have questions about whether it would require more energy to produce than just eating vegetables. But for meat heads, I'd prefer them to eat this than anything from live animals. Chances are they won't though, since meat isn't just muscle cells... it is also fat, nerve tissue, connective tissue including blood; plus all the chemicals involved in muscle innervation as well as whatever is floating around in the blood such as proteins, fats, hormones etc. Since so many meat heads are unwilling to choose ethical products because they are too selfish to forgo the taste of meat, I'm not sure anyone will succeed in reproducing it in a way that they will find acceptable.

vegan biologist

As nice as it is in theory...the truth me told, in my opinion...it's really weird and kinda gross. It almost seems science fiction. I would love if all animal suffering came to an end, but test tube meat really does not sound appetizing. Plus I highly doubt it would taste as good as the real thing. Selfish or not, that's just the truth. And that will make a big impact on whether it sells or not.

To be honest....I don't think it has much of a chance catching on.