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1. dinkblam · 1790244801 · focus · HN ↗

   it is sad how the lobbying of old evil industries like tobacco and animal-killing can convince the politicians and the public to outlaw and demonize their less-evil competition like vaping and lab-grown meat to make sure to hold on to the status quo.

   but why write more than 7000 words to communicate a simple point (lab-grown meat was promised 1-2 decades ago but failed to arrive and won't arrive in the foreseeable future)?

   1. lofaszvanitt · 1790290550 · focus · HN ↗

      It could turn into evil quite fast. Just imagine that average joes are forbidden to keep pigs, poultry and the like. Instead you have to buy a zillion dollar lab that creates artificial meat for you.... and pay license fees.

      1. thriving_earthw · 1790294210 · focus · HN ↗

         You mean no more raising tens of millions of pigs and billions of chickens in intense confinement?

         Don't threaten me with a good time!

         1. lofaszvanitt · 1790306927 · focus · HN ↗

            Yeah, imagine AI, but for your food. How tasty, right?

            Eternal dependence, and applauding the way they destroy your humanity down to the very last cell. Go on, applaud it.

            1. thriving_earthw · 1790362473 · focus · HN ↗

               Rational compassion being perhaps a distinctively human trait, needless animal slaughter and suffering is far more ruinous to my humanity.

               Also the small farmers you are romanticizing hardly exist anymore precisely because of the returns to scale that lead large resource efficient factory farms to dominate.

               1. lofaszvanitt · 1790387979 · focus · HN ↗

                  Yeah, you are partially right, but you still have the option to keep and raise animals.. That's freedom. When the artificial meat starts to take over it will be the death knell of the livestock industry and part of your freedom.

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