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OriginalGeek Donating Member (589 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-31-11 05:55 PM
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Question for vegetarians - and maybe meat eaters as well
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I heard a kind of a neat story on NPR last night about a process being developed wherein meat is being produced in the lab. it's real meat grown by letting 2 meat cells reproduce just like they would in an animal's body but there is no animal involved. I'm not sciency enough to understand all the particulars but I just believe they mean what they say and they are on the way to having animal suffering-free meat. IT's still a long ways off since the biggest chunk so far is a pretty small dot of meat in a test tube but they say they are getting all the kinks worked out to make it mass-producible.

So the question is would that affect your vegetarian lifestyle? (Assuming they can make it taste good lol) I also assume they might be able to tweak the nutritional value of the lab meat.

I guess as a meat eater I would have to at least try it but would any of you?

I freely admit being uneducated on the subject of vegan/vegetarianism and all the different levels of it but I am aware that there are differences so please feel free to correct any assumptions you think I may have made. I'm here to learn.

THanks!
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