[HN Gopher] What's the point of lab-grown meat when we can just ...
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What's the point of lab-grown meat when we can just eat more
vegetables? (2020)
Author : cheese_goddess
Score : 18 points
Date : 2021-07-18 18:50 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| LoveLeadAcid wrote:
| I'll eat the meat without guilt. Bill Gates can eat bugs and live
| in a pod and reminisce about his long stays on Epstein's Fantasy
| Island.
| gremloni wrote:
| Meat is the most delicious thing I eat in a day. I try to eat
| some everyday. Mushrooms get close but if you really want
| delicious vegetables you have to add a lot of dairy based fat and
| it's still nowhere near as delicious as meat.
| 7sigma wrote:
| I like meat a lot, but over the last year I've reduced my meat
| consumption to about once or twice a month. I can make a
| delicious chick pea and lentil soup, or a simple tomato pasta
| sauce and i don't feel the need for meat.
|
| Recipes like yotam otolenghis courgette terrine with tomato
| chutney is simply awesome.
| https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/sep/26/yotam-ottolengh...
|
| I also replaced steak burgers with beyond burgers or similar
| and I don't notice the difference. I still miss meat sometimes
| but I eat for special occasions or barbeques.
| aaron695 wrote:
| If I was big meat I'd sponsor this article.
|
| Not sure if their marketing is that complex, but not sure what's
| worse, if they did or didn't.
| alisonkisk wrote:
| I eat a lot of vegetables and a lot of fake meat.
|
| 1. Vegetables have less protein (and fat)
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| 2. Lab grown meat is essentially a vegetable for the aspects that
| make vegetables desirable.
|
| 3. Nearly every vegetable is already severely unnaturally
| genetically engineered.
| smackeyacky wrote:
| By saying "unnaturally genetically engineered" do you mean (a)
| selectively bred? Or do you mean (b) laboratory enhanced?
|
| If it's (b) then you are very mistaken. There is nothing wrong
| with (a) in terms of nutrition or food safety. We would not be
| feeding the world without (a) and it's a dangerous and wilfully
| ignorant statement to associate selective breeding with
| something like CRISPR.
| 7sigma wrote:
| Your 3rd point doesn't really stand up as nature has been
| genetically engineering plants for far longer than humans. The
| sweet potato for example has had DNA implanted from other
| species via the agrobacterium. There are other examples out
| there.
|
| Also nearly every vegetable has been modified via breeding as
| the wild counterpart is a lot less edible. For example bananas
| and watermelons used to have a lot more seeds.
| inglor_cz wrote:
| What's the point of The Guardian when we can just read something
| else?
| noduerme wrote:
| Seriously. Why have a car when you can take a bus? Why have a
| house when you can live in an apartment? Or a small pod?
|
| For activists, it's not about fixing the planet's problems.
| It's about making sure everyone displays endless contrition for
| anything pleasurable. There's no reason to feel guilty about
| eating a substitute meat product - and that's a problem when
| your brand rests on making people feel guilty.
| gdubs wrote:
| > But the coronavirus pandemic has shown that, globally, we are
| able to make enormous changes to our behaviour when faced with
| existential crisis.
|
| Funny because I thought we saw the exact opposite.
| mpalmer wrote:
| Not to mention COVID didn't require most people to make actual
| permanent changes to something as personally important as their
| diet.
|
| Plenty of people wore masks, distanced, etc knowing the special
| safety measures would end eventually.
| readonthegoapp wrote:
| Huh? How so?
| Grim-444 wrote:
| I'm assuming they wanted a higher percentage of the
| population to change their behavior and fully comply with
| lockdowns/masks/vaccine passports/etc. in response to a
| coronavirus with a 99.98% survival rate.
| LatteLazy wrote:
| 2.5% death rate here in England.
|
| 112k deaths from 4.4m cases.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_England
| LatteLazy wrote:
| I'm not OP but...
|
| I'm English. There hasn't been a single time I've gone to the
| super market and seen everyone wear a mask. I've been at
| least 100 times. Probably more. This is excluding anyone with
| an exception and any kids etc.
|
| The same for taking the tube into London the few times I've
| been.
|
| Multiple government ministers have been caught breaking the
| rules and kept their jobs. They've been caught ignoring
| scientific advice multiple times. They've gone out of their
| way to make it clear that breaking the rules is A-OK.
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