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1. throwfaraway135 · 1790247264 · focus · HN ↗

   People have fetishized animals so much that creating synthetic goop in the form of flesh somehow got billions in founding. Omnivores eat meat, even herbivores do it sometimes, get over it.

   1. jagged-chisel · 1790247525 · focus · HN ↗

      It’s not the meat eating that’s the problem. It’s the industrial farming that we’ve instituted in the last 75 years.

      Cows can be treated nicely, given a field to romp in, fun toys, and then euthanized quickly without causing them fear.

      But that means leaving wide open space that’s not making the shareholders enough extra money and therefore we don’t do it. Instead, we torture them.

      1. chneu · 1790259860 · focus · HN ↗

         It also destroys that land and the environment.

         The land we use for ranching isn't empty or useless. That's just what resource extractors always say.

   2. c048 · 1790247735 · focus · HN ↗

      Eh, I eat meat almost daily (chicken breast) and I'm fully aware of what entails the butchering of animals. Even had a pet rabbit at my grandfather's when I was a kid, that one day disappeared and the next day we ate rabbit meat. Just like when I cleaned up the squirrel that was torn in half by my cats, I see it all as a part of life.

      Doesn't mean that I wouldn't prefer if it all came from grown meat, rather than the entire industry that we have now. If the taste, texture and looks are the same, why shouldn't we switch (if those 3 factors are the only important ones)?

      1. throwfaraway135 · 1790265309 · focus · HN ↗

         Because every second super processed food is reveled to be carcinogenic or harmful in the long term, why would you take the risk if there is a good alternative? Btw I am also against industrial scale animal farms, those are problematic too, not from a morale but health perspective.
   3. vor_ · 1790325531 · focus · HN ↗

      You're fixating on the emotional issues of eating meat, but that's not even the primary interest in the technology.

      1. throwfaraway135 · 1790327050 · focus · HN ↗

         afaik most people who don't eat meat or would consider synthetic alternatives do so because of moral considerations. We are already super efficient in farming meat, to such degree when that transportation is a bigger factor.

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