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Vegans of Lemmy, would you eat lab-grown meat? (lemmy.cafe)

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The main reasons I've seen from vegans for not eating meat seem to be all about the morality of eating a sentient animal, the practices of the modern meat industry, and the environmental impact of it. And don't have anything to do with the taste of meat.

Since lab-grown meat doesn't cause animal suffering, and assuming mass production is environmentally friendly, would you consider going back to eating meat if it were the lab-grown kind?

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[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Not to mention i feel like lab grown meat in particular will have been made possible through animal suffering research.

I feel like there's a limit to this. How much time has to pass before it's ethical again? After all, many animals were harmed in the research (selective breeding) of modern vegetables too. It's a process that took hundreds to thousands of years and a ton of livestock used as farm equipment to create something like the modern carrot.

Poking with a modern needle or using a single cattle by comparison is a lot less sacrificial research by comparison, only it's more recent.

[-] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Of course this could apply to a lot of other things and i realize it isn't particularly rational. Though on the note of modern needle vs not, a single biopsy on a live animal is causing harm so that's not a good comparison since that is not vegan by any standard.

But i mention the past suffering here because that is what i would be reminded of eating lab grown meat, rational or not. In general i think if the current process is vegan then it is fine (so using a biopsy on a recently, naturally, deceased animal or from an umbilical cord).

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