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What's your opinion on this?

The more food the better. 33 53.23%
 
Eeewww. No, thanks. 23 37.10%
 
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It's 100% real meat. I see no problem. People are so willing to eat all sorts of heavily processed foods with all sorts of funny chemicals in them and whatnot, but give 'em something real and because its origins are abnormal, they freak out. OK.



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highwaystar101 said:
sethnintendo said:

How about tell people to stop eating so much meat? Meat is okay but we obviously eat too much of it as Americans. The cost to produce a lb of meat is far greater than growing crops. Also, you then have the problem with factory farms such as disease, pollution run off, etc...  Cows aren't supposed to stand in their own shit all day long eating corn and chicken shit.  So basically when you eat a steak you are eating chicken shit if you got it from a factory farm.  Free range is obviously the more natural and better for everyone way to go.


Growing meat in a lab could lower meat costs, meet the high demand for meat, lower resource requirements to produce meat, stop the pollution caused by rearing livestock and end intensive livestock farming.

This idea could solve all the problems you have with meat production.

You are pretty much right on that.  I came into the thread mainly just pissed at the way we grow our food / animals in USA.  This does sound like a lot better option than factory farms.   Funny that people bitch about this but (like thetonestarr said) they don't even think twice when buying highly processed foods that are filled with chemicals that should never enter the body.  Just goes to show how easily manipulated the public is and how they turn a blind eye to the most important industry in the world (the food industry).  I suggest everyone to read the book Fast Food Nation which was turned into a documentary.



sethnintendo said:

You are pretty much right on that.  I came into the thread mainly just pissed at the way we grow our food / animals in USA.  This does sound like a lot better option than factory farms.   Funny that people bitch about this but (like thetonestarr said) they don't even think twice when buying highly processed foods that are filled with chemicals that should never enter the body.  Just goes to show how easily manipulated the public is and how they turn a blind eye to the most important industry in the world (the food industry).  I suggest everyone to read the book Fast Food Nation which was turned into a documentary.

Just wanted to throw this out there... I read Fast Food Nation. I still eat meat and fast food without a second thought. I'm all for more efficient methods of producing food, especially if it's healthier, but right now, sometimes I just need a quick meal and fast food is great for that purpose. I'm in college though so I can get away with eating junk for a little while longer, and by the time I need to watch what I eat, I'll actually have time to make a good meal.



The people who dislike the notion of artificial meat are small minded people who fear what they don't understand. Unless the thing is proven to actually cause damage, then there's nothing to worry about. Research like this is not what some of you call "a sad day", but rather a hope for humanity.