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Disclaimer: I eat meat. I love it. I think not eating meat is bad for one’s health. And while I don’t care one way or the other if anyone is a veg[itari]an, I find that they are, for the most part, assholes about it.
- Much progress has been made in cloning animal cells to grow meat in the laboratory. Not a whole animal – though that is, of course, possible, – just meat.
- Given enough success at that, it will almost certainly be possible at some point to eliminate the farming of animals for meat as food.
- Eating cloned meat is identical to eating beef taken from animals.
Taste issues aside, and those surely will be solved sooner or later if they even exist at all, I see no particular reason not to eat cloned meat.
- You constantly inadvertently swallow your own cells that come loose or die in your mouth.
- The total number of cells you swallow numbers in the millions, if not more.
- This is a completely natural occurrence. It’s unavoidable.
- It is possible to clone human cells. This has been done countless times for various reasons.
So I ask you, if human cells taken from inside your own mouth were to be cloned into meat, would you eat it? Would you consider it to be cannibalism? Why or why not? How do you see it morally? I won’t give my own opinion here so as not to color anyone’s views.
Discuss. Have fun. Pass the pork chops.
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Aw, come on. somebody has to say it…
“SOYLENT GREEN IS PEEEEEOPLE!!!!!”
I can’t believe that never occurred to me about this. LMAO
“Would you consider it cannibalism?”
To exactly the same extent, and for precisely the same reason, as biting your nails.
I’m not sure if skin cells from inside your mouth would count as meat. I also wonder at the nutritional value of cloned vs grown meat, and whether reproducing the muscle structure artificially will contain the same nutritional balance (not to mention flavor) as “real” meat.
In my part of the state we have a lot of corn fields and the deer that are harvested here, after them harvesting the corn, taste different than the ones from elsewhere, with fewer fields and more forests.
If we can produce a nutritious meat like food product I would be all for it, and while I do not have any problems with modifying crops either by selective breeding or genetic engineering, I do wonder at vat grown food since I do not know enough about the process.
If I were to encounter a vegan or vetegarian, I’d first ask if their choice is medically based or something else. Allergies really don’t give you a choice, but if you’re going against your omnivorous nature, you’re either trying to counter evolution and genetics, or the commands of God, depending. Humans, bears, and a lot of animals need to eat a variety of things to get all of the nutrients we need. The Galapagos tortoise might live to 100 on a selection of vegetables, but we are not green.
The article says that the cells taken from inside the mouth are grown into meat. They don’t stay skin cells.
Ah, I suppose tongue is muscle. Hopefully I’ll have a shorter day and time to actually read that later.
I haven’t met many, but it seems that every vegan/vegetarian that I have ever known seems to be constantly sick, or have chronic health problems.