Would you eat artificial meat?

Question

It is possible to use stem cells from a chicken and create real chicken meat from those cells. There is research going into this as we speak. This meat can even be modified to be much healthier than "natural" meat, by putting omega-3-fatty acids into it.

If the option arose to either buy natural meat made from slaughtered animals, or healthier meat made in a factory that did not harm a single animal, would you buy it? Would you save billions of animal's lives by switching to artificial meat, assuming it had NO health consequences, tasted exactly like natural meat, and was good for you and would not clog your arteries?

You might say, "EWW, gross," but is it really more gross than eating the skeletal muscles of organisms that are genetically very similar to us?

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/artificial_meat_grown.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71201-0.html

http://www.new-harvest.org/default.php

By the way, I just used stem cells from a chicken as an example. You can get stem cells from any animal and make meat from it. Meat is just skeletal muscle. That can be grown quite easily.

Answer 1

yes i would eat it

Answer 2

I think the best step for meat production is better animal husbandry, livestock raised in a traditional non-intensive way, and that is what consumers are starting to want. I don't think consumers would ever consider that a better, more humane option, there is too much bad press about GM, stem cell research and badly raised meat. What you propose seems like a step backwards to me. In the future I would like to see unnecessarily over-processed foods being phased out. If you're gonna eat meat, make it good meat and eat it less often.

Answer 3

That´s very difficult to answer. I´d rather eat natural food and start looking for a natural alternative protein source other than meat.

There are lots of natural resorces out there. If you want to find more info about natural food visit sites such as this one:
www.becomenatural.com

Answer 4

I'd try it, if it tasted good I'd buy it more often. If it had an artificial flavor, I wouldn't. (Yeah, you say it'd taste the same, but some people insist diet coke tasts the same as regular too... :P)

Answer 5

i would try it , who knows it might taste good. has to taste better than some of the so-called meat we eat today.

Answer 6

whatever they play with it
it will tast chicken all the time lol