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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by noktastrigo@lemmy.cafe to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

I grew up vegetarian and I'm used to regarding body parts as belonging to a living thing and to be used in service of it, not as food.

If others cannot stop eating meat from animals then I would find it less morally wrong to eat lab-grown. Still disgusting though. And unlikely to be very resource efficient. Or safe. That's my two pennies!

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Only for fish/eggs/dairy. I've never really liked pork or beef.

[-] Madeyro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Chicken, turkey, rabbit?

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

I would not trust anyone who tells me it's lab grown. I've had so many restaurants and people lie to me that someone ws vegan, out of malice and out of incompetence, that I just would not believe that a burger was "lab grown" instead of made with cheap meat leftovers.

If somehow I I could assure that it was made without animals being hurt, maybe. Meat is unhealthy so I would still mostly avoid it.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

How is free range grown-up meat bad for health?
Everything within limits and maybe not the cheapest drug filled meat?

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The human body is an amagin versatile machine. But the best diet for health seems to be plant based whole foods. Meat should be a very small part of your diet. It has been linked to all main causes of death like heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimers...

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

I don't think that lab-grown meat will ever replace animal agriculture on a large scale, at least in my lifetime. That being the case, I'd rather leave any ethically produced meat for people who would've been eating unethically produced meat instead.

If the situation is basically full on Star Trek replicator, then I wouldn't have ethical qualms but I might still find it gross and it might not digest well since I'm not used to it. Either way, it's very distant from the actual situation we're in now.

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

I wouldn't call that going back, exactly

[-] 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.

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If it’s vegan (is fetal bovine serum still an input?) then yes.

Any vegan who says no is saying so for some other reason besides veganism (ick factor, no desire, environmental considerations).

If your knee-jerk reaction to this is to downvote because "what kind of vegan eats meat?" - consider why you went vegan. Was it for the animals? Well, if lab meat allows us to produce meat without animal suffering then it's vegan...

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

Nah, the stuff I am cooking without meat tastes better anyways.

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[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I don't really see the point, so probably not.

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