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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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[-] d416@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

10-year vegan here , 20-year veg. My answer is no no no.

Other than the taste and what it represents, there is far better food to eat which is grown outside than animal flesh.. grown inside a lab no less.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

I’m all for people being vegan and vegetarian. I just wanted to follow up on this with a question: what about genetically engineered fruit/veg? Or greenhouses? Really, what’s the difference between a lab and a greenhouse when it comes to making food? I just don’t see the lab thing making any sense. We eat a ton of stuff grown in what is essentially food labs. Kitchens are food labs, especially the bigger ones. Don’t eat the lab grown meat, all fine with me. I just think the distinction is strange.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Not that it matters, but obviously if this ever becomes commercialised and actually available, it will no longer be grown in a lab, as labs are equipped for research, not mass production of products.

[-] schmurian@lsmu.schmurian.xyz 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm vegetarian, my wife is vegan and I think this best reflects how I feel about it. Once you remove meat from your diet, you start to explore how flavourful everything else is.

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