A question for vegetarians?

Question

Would you eat meat that was ethically produced, if it did not require an animal to be hurt or killed? Check this link and let me know your thoughts. This is probably the meat of the future as scientists are busily at work on it.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/06/71201
Thanks for your responses.

Answer 1

In the laboratories today, your livingroom tomorrow.

That's right with the new chia pet home meat factory grow your own meat in less then a week. Having company on Friday? Simply purchase the Chia Pet meat factory on Saturday and have that Boneless steak ready by Friday night. Your guests wouldn't even know.

(Cut to the dinner scene)

(Mildred) - Madge this is a great cut of meat, where did you get it?
(Madge) - oh somewhere close by (as she hides the Chia Pet meat Factory box behind her back)

(later at the backyard grill)
(Hank) - Wow, Tom that steak is cooking up fine.
(Tom) - Yeah, thanks to cruelty free shopping and Chia Pet.
(Hank) - What?
(Tom) - (holds up his next cow shaped meat factory already in the process of growing) Yup! and this one is for the Morrisons, who are visiting on Tuesday.


Ch-ch-ch-chia.

Answer 2

This question has been asked many times and we pretty much all have the same stance as when we answered the last 10 times.

Many vegetarians choose to live a lifestyle that is cruelty-free. We go out of our ways (usually) to purchase free-trade prodcuts and we try to steer clear of genetically-modified foods. If this isn't genetically modified, I don't know what is. Based on that principle alone, we wouldn't go near it.

Getting to the heart of the matter, though, it's produced from an animal (in this case, pig stem cells). That means its from an ANIMAL and vegetarians don't eat animals. The big different between that and the already-existing meat substitutes is that they are derived from soy or other vegetables...and many are suitable for vegans. This meat-from-a-petri is neither.

Simple logic would have answered your question and you could have saved your five points. No.

BTW- I don't believe that ANY type of stem-cell research, manipulation or modification is ethical.

Answer 3

Never say never, I always say.

It would take a very creative marketing ploy for it to take off, or possibly a lack of choice...

Say this was fully developed, proven to be safe, tastes good and there was a world wide bird flu, mad cow, sick pig epidemic... (which isn't that far fetched) marketed properly (like the molecular thing-y machine in Star Trek made it), I think people would go for it...

We already use cultured tissue for skin, bone & ligament grafts. Everything we consume has some how been genetically modified, thru breading or feed, veggies included. Why is this any weirder or yuckier?

The eco-system is a mess anyway, it's possible we'll need portable bottles to recycle our urine (not being gross, anyone watch Water World?) or living in bubbles not in the too distant future, unless we blow ourselves up first...

Personally, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

BTW, you're asking the wrong crowd, we already think meat is yuck, this doesn't help. (Just so you know...) Ask the meat eaters.

Good question, star.

P.S. Marketing tag line - Got mad cow? Cultured meat, the safer choice. :-D

Answer 4

Hmmm. Honestly, a good question. Not sure. I definitely wouldn't have an ethical problem with it. Would I maybe hesitate, thinking that perhaps the meat was not safe? Possibly. Then there's the issue of whether the human body really should be eating meat anyway. I've heard convincing arguments that we're naturally not carnivorous... I'm not sure who's right on that one. But if the meat was safe - AND healthy for you - why not?

Answer 5

Nope. Too creepy. And I don't think my body would tolerate it all that well.

That said, I hope it does take off. If it means 10 animals or 100 are hurt rather than the 10 billion animals tortured every year under the current system, that would be an improvement. I know that many people love the taste of animal flesh too much to ever go veg*an, which is sad. I know all I can reasonably hope for is that people eat less of it and that they eat the less cruelly produced stuff when they do.

Answer 6

No. I don't like the idea of food manipulated by scientists.

Besides, animals still have to die for it, because they would have to start with real animal tissue to make it.

The USA is already using genetically modified food and does not require it to be labeled as such. I find that disturbing. I'm tired of these scientists deciding what's good for me without giving me a choice in the matter.

If they start selling this in the USA, it won't have to be labelled either unless they change the laws.

Answer 7

No, I became a vegetarian in the first place because I don't like the taste of meat. Now my reasons are different. But no meat will be disgusting to be no matter if it's made by God or humans.

Answer 8

probably not -
firstly i'm not too keen on meat
2ndly - it is still produced from stem stells - which i'm not sure how ethicl that is
thirdly - it isn't natural - god didn't make the animals like that
fourthly - we won't know if there are any sideeffects to this type of meat for another 10 years or so - i don't want to be part of the experimental group;

Answer 9

Carcasses are still an inferior food source.

regardless of how conscious the meat is.

i believe raw plant food is the best human food source.

Answer 10

No too horrid. I don't eat meat cause of it's high cost! I also never cared for the taste of it! I also don't like the sight of blood! I even close my eyes when I eat beets or tomatos cause they are red and they remind me of meat that's bloody!