I think I would find lab-grown "meat" to be pretty disturbing. Although I don't (yet--a matter of some reflection for me) have a problem with killing animals for food, I do dislike factory farms. "Modern" animal farming techniques are not all that great for food quality, the environment or animal welfare.
Not that any of that explains why I would dislike eating lab-grown meat. It is my general preference for natural things and dislike of synthetics. It is as much an aesthetic as rational preference in many cases. I do agree that it is environmentally sounder to eat vegetable protein rather than meat. But, why lab-grown meat instead of tofu, etc?
Reminds me of a SF story I read once where the characters lived in a poor home and were forced to kill and eat actual animals--which was a very taboo/disgusting thing to the society that had become used to eating "Reel" meat, a synthetic name-brand product. Perhaps that is part of the disgust factor to me...I could see this being yet another part of the McDonald/Disney-fying of our culture. Also reminds me of the short-story on PLIF where the children of whole countries were genetically modified to be dependent on McDonalds food. It's bad enough that many children these days have no sense of where meat (or any other food for that matter) really comes from.
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Not that any of that explains why I would dislike eating lab-grown meat. It is my general preference for natural things and dislike of synthetics. It is as much an aesthetic as rational preference in many cases. I do agree that it is environmentally sounder to eat vegetable protein rather than meat. But, why lab-grown meat instead of tofu, etc?
Reminds me of a SF story I read once where the characters lived in a poor home and were forced to kill and eat actual animals--which was a very taboo/disgusting thing to the society that had become used to eating "Reel" meat, a synthetic name-brand product. Perhaps that is part of the disgust factor to me...I could see this being yet another part of the McDonald/Disney-fying of our culture. Also reminds me of the short-story on PLIF where the children of whole countries were genetically modified to be dependent on McDonalds food. It's bad enough that many children these days have no sense of where meat (or any other food for that matter) really comes from.
Ugh.