Yes, without a doubt. It takes many of the downsides of meat out of the equation (animal cruelty, environmental impact, use of antibiotics).
I don't know how the health effects would change though.
I don't know how the health effects would change though.
It is odd how one says Yes without a doubt to something that one eats, but also is aware of being unaware of its health effects.
It is very scary though...
Don't you think we should eat something that is guaranteed to bring good health to us...
If we can easily believe that eating lab grown meat and real living natural food is same then why don't we believe fake news as real? They also sound real, they also have words, they also have websites they also appear to have likes...
This effort to make the boundary between nature and artificial disappear isn't it like making ourselves disappear, are we humans not natural beings?
Because meat isn't true or untrue, it provides things your bodies need, things it doesn't need, or things that are harmful to it.
I'll be honest, I'm not totally on board, but I don't see any reason we shouldn't grow meat in a lab, and probably many benefits.
Ideally, they'd be sterilized between batches, in a way that left no residue on the product. In practice, though, I wonder if they won't need to use antibiotics (or something like them) in order to ensure a safe product.
The advantage will be that all those antibiotics don't run off into the soil... except for the plant's wastewater. Still, it ought to be more localized than the current practice.
So I'm suspicious of "it's just the same". Yeah, it is, except for the traces of stuff where it's not. Those traces may not matter to most people. (Then again, they may - prions, anyone?) But to at least some people, the small differences really matter, not because of their taste buds or their feelings about their food, but because they legitimately react strongly to some things.
But you, why are you so eager to discredit someone whose viewpoint (I assume) differs from your own? Why are you so eager to ascribe bad faith or ulterior motives to someone?
Is there any other lab grown thing that we have eaten?
And I'm not trying to discredit someone with different opinions. I'm trying to understand that person on a deeper level than they've so far given.
Regarding your thoughts on whether it's a living thing, is purely philosophical. It sounds to me like you haven't actually seen what goes into these artificial meats. They extract cells from animals and feed them the nutrients they need (like amino acids) to cause the cells to divide and grow like they would in the animal's body.
So whether a muscle grew with a cow over years, or it grew in a lab, does that really matter?
Is an organ that's grown on a pig any less an organ than one grown in a human?