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Old 06-08-2012, 06:31 PM   #9941 (permalink)
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I remember you saying you just plain don't like meat, right?

I wonder how many vegans would start eating meat again if they forged ahead with that laboratory grown stuff. If you're "growing" what amounts to a big hunk of flesh with no central nervous system or brain to speak of, what's the harm done? That's if they're vegan for moral reasons, which - correct me if I'm wrong - is probably the majority of vegans, as opposed to vegetarians doing it for health reasons.
I have a weird relationship with food, I overthink everything that's in what I eat. Since meat is flesh, I could never really think of it as food. So I guess it's a moral issue and just not liking meat.

I wouldn't eat it even if it was grown without a brain or nervous system, it would still gross me the **** out.
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Old 06-09-2012, 10:42 AM   #9942 (permalink)
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I think for me meat has been abject for so long it wouldn't make much difference if it were cultured it would still repulse me. Plus I imagine it must have been derived from an animal at some point. In any case it's pretty creepy.
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Old 06-09-2012, 10:47 AM   #9943 (permalink)
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No. People are vegetarians for different reasons, though. So I can't speak for all vegetarians, but I wouldn't eat any animals.
Well, what if we somehow found a way to be able to consume amoebas? Or plankton? Or whatever? Basically, if any living thing could hypothetically be consumed, what would the boundary be for you?

Edit: Morally speaking of course.
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I think for me meat has been abject for so long it wouldn't make much difference if it were cultured it would still repulse me. Plus I imagine it must have been derived from an animal at some point. In any case it's pretty creepy.
I don't really understand the creepiness factor. It would save the lives of animals and protect the environment – I know about the stigma, but just have personally never felt it.
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I don't really understand the creepiness factor. It would save the lives of animals and protect the environment – I know about the stigma, but just have personally never felt it.
So for arguments sake how would you feel about cultured human meat?
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So for arguments sake how would you feel about cultured human meat?
I don't think this makes a good argument, because it's meat we wouldn't ever ordinarily eat, and it has nothing to do ith cruelty in the industry.

Perhaps cultured dog meat would make a better argument? I think I would try it, if I knew it came out of a petri dish* and not a dog.

*Almost said "if it came out of a lab" but that's ambiguous isn't it?
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I don't think this makes a good argument, because it's meat we wouldn't ever ordinarily eat, and it has nothing to do ith cruelty in the industry.

Perhaps cultured dog meat would make a better argument? I think I would try it, if I knew it came out of a petri dish* and not a dog.

*Almost said "if it came out of a lab" but that's ambiguous isn't it?
That's hilarious.

Pedestrian makes a good point. And to answer her question – I'd definitely eat dog meat if I liked the taste. I'd probably eat it if I visited China and it didn't come from a... Ahem.. Petri dish. And I love dogs.

Human meat wouldn't happen. There's a taboo around that which needs to be there. I'm not a biologist or anything, but I believe we (remote tribal customs notwithstanding) evolved a nearly hardwires aversion to it.

But hell – even if some company started selling it, at least it isn't killing humans.
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I guess personally I find animal corpses only marginally less repulsive than human ones so the comparison of cultured human meat was I guess an attempt at explaining my perspective on the issue.
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Well, what if we somehow found a way to be able to consume amoebas? Or plankton? Or whatever? Basically, if any living thing could hypothetically be consumed, what would the boundary be for you?

Edit: Morally speaking of course.
Pretty much anything that I am conscious of it being "alive" outside of plants, really.


As for the human meat thing, lol. I kind of feel like eating animal would be the same as eating human, that's why it disgusts me so much
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