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Sounds way too dystopian to be trustworthy,

and there's no explanation why I would even WANT to eat this.

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Try to think how dystopian the meat industry feels to a vegetarian or vegan person.

That's the explanation.

We can't talk about this when you don't know what "dystopian" means.

In what way does this sound dystopian? Ideally this is a protein source without the nasty externalities of intensive agriculture and it can exist in places and spaces that aren't typically conducive to food production.

Ideally, yes, plant based diets would dominate, but the idea of turning renewable energy into supplemental foodstuff sounds like a huge win to me.

I rather only eat things which actually grow,

and don't need to be produced,

instead of blindly accepting being told that something's good for me,

just because there's a lot of money behind it.

I guarantee you that you are eating things that are being produced. Unless you are getting all your calories and spices from small family farms.

Industrial agriculture is mining, not growing things.

It's made out of air my good person.

How? :)

If it's a more sustainable, cruelty-free source of protein than is currently available, and if it's safe, why not? There are multiple big "if" statements there, but should they all pass, I'd be all for it.

By using the term cruelty-free, are you describing dense, commercial feedlot animal production only, or are you including all types of animal husbandry and meat acquisition, including hunting?

Doesn’t really matter since it doesn’t involve slaughter at all.

> all types of animal husbandry and meat acquisition, including hunting?

Clearly it’s cruel to kill an animal even through hunting. The animal doesn’t want to be shot/stabbed/etc…

Or transported on noisy truck without food, water, or air heating/cooling, for many hours or days.

And yet animals (even herbivores) kill other animals all the time. This concern over the cruelty of killing livestock for food is such a weird human conceit.

Well, humans have the choice. Likewise, pointing out that rape is common in the animal kingdom isn't very convincing license for humans to rape.

There's a definite spectrum of cruelty, with factory farming near one extreme and many forms of hunting near the other. How much cruelty one can stomach (literally, in this case) is up to the individual, of course.

Reduced land use vs. traditional agriculture. Imagine going to space and living off a vat of microbes grown using electrical energy!

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