If Science Can Create Meat In A Lab Without Killing An Animal - Would Vegetarians Eat It?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Like, if scientists could creat a perfectly formed rib-eye steak or a chicken breast, without actually having to create an animal to kill and then turn into that meat by-product, would that be an end-around to one of the central tenants of vegetarianism - that killing animals for food is wrong?

[Occam Bandage]

1. Odds that most vegetarians would eat "lab-grown frankenfood?" Not high.

[KingOfLostSouls]

2. I say we kill and eat vegans

we're just fattening them up for the big economic collapse and oil wars like on "The Road Warrior."


MUHUHUHUAHAHHHAHAHAHHAA!!!!

[mithnanthy]

3. I'm a vegetarian...

and the smell and taste of meat in undesirable to me. So I wouldn't be interested in eating lab-grown meat.

[Ian David]

7. What about lab-grown meat that followed you home and begged you to eat it? n/t

[LeftyMom]

10. I think I remember this scene. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, right?

[Ian David]

12. Would you like to meet the meat? n/t

[tandem5]

19. youtube...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ucNYLsjKaTQ

time 6:20

[LeftyMom]

4. no

Might be a nice solution for feeding my cats though.

[Ian David]

5. Someone at Wired had the same as I did and proposed fields of veal.

My idea was genetically modified pumpkins growing veal.

Somewhere in the DU archives, I posted this-- pre-dating Wired.

You couldn't grow beef-- beef is meat that's walked around a little. But you could grow veal. Veal doesn't exercise.

And it's delicious.

Too delicious to waste on "veal patties" of breadcrumbs and baby cow eyeballs and crap.

But if you go to Sammy's Restaurant on the lower East Side of Manhattan...

If only it were grown in a cruelty-free pumpkin patch.

I'd eat it every day until my colon shut down.

[tandem5]

6. hey, but you are killing a steak-sized amount of animal - which begs the question...

how much animal before it becomes murder? A breakfast steak's worth... okay, but rack of lamb?? I don't think so! :P

[Ian David]

9. I'd eat tiny little moo-ing cows by the handful like popcorn if I could. n/t

[tandem5]

11. moo-chables? or perhaps moo-nchies?

either one... I call TM!

[Wiley50]

8. It was done centuries ago

charcoal grilled BBQ tempeh and tofu. Comes damned close.

I'm not a vegan anymore, but I once was

Of course, it doesn't compare with ribs cooked the same way.

Which is why I'm vegan no more

[lonestarnot]

13. I eat meat, but won't eat it and when it's confirmed that it is being sold at the market,

I am going to quit eating meat.

[baldguy]

14. Why wasn't Hufu more popular?

http://web.archive.org/web/20060209025919/http://www.eathufu.com/home.asp

[Atman]

15. I'd eat a vegetarian first.

But she'd have to shower before hand.

.

[tandem5]

18. uh oh I think this thread is, uh, going down...

hill.

[KingOfLostSouls]

22. and shave

vegan chicks look like they got chewbacca in a scissor lock "down below."

[AllyCat]

16. Blech. That sounds awful.

I'm a vegetarian and don't eat meat largely because I don't like it. However, the way we raise meat is gross and a close second reason I don't eat it. Meat grown in a lab sounds, just, nasty.

[Lint Head]

17. Can science turn 'meat in the lab' into a beautiful woman or

man to be exclusively used as a sexual partner? Just asking.:dem:

[Raine]

20. No, I wouldn't

because the taste of meat is repugnant to me. I never liked meat even before I became "aware" I just could never abide it. :puke:

[Hoof Hearted]

21. I've lost my taste for the stuff and honestly, it holds no appeal anymore.

Plus it would still be unhealthy as hell.

But, knock yourself out. I'm all for any technology that would ease cruelty and (hopefully) aid the environment.

[KingOfLostSouls]

23. I'm here all night, folks

why don't vegan lesbians date?

they don't eat meat





did you hear the one about the vegan circus clown?

he died trying to save a bull.



did you hear about the vietnamese lesbian cookbook?

its called "Hear, Kitty Kitty"





why is tofu like giving a chick oral sex?

it tastes like the seasoning





how does a mute vegan protest chant?

it refuses to throw "the horns"




how do you oppress a vegan?

don't let them get the free salad with the entree





what do you call a vegan in a wheelchair with alzeimers?

a vegetable.





god I hope the mods don't ban me, haha

[Nailzberg]

24. Mmmmm. science lab rib-eye.

I'm hungry now.