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1. swiftcoder · 1790245532 · focus · HN ↗

   > Then, suddenly, the nausea hit... The problem was not the flavor, not the texture, but the knowing. The Knowing. Knowing about the fat tank, about the sticky white substance...

   I feel like squeamish people are probably not the best ones to write about novel meat products...

   1. FranzFerdiNaN · 1790246179 · focus · HN ↗

      So a tank is problematic, but a slaughter house is fine?

      1. OroPla · 1790247647 · focus · HN ↗

         Honestly speaking, yes.

         I've seen plenty of videos from slaughter houses, mostly ones activists use to point at the cruelty going on inside, but it never made me feel uncomfortable.

         1. pseudohadamard · 1790327880 · focus · HN ↗

            I felt a bit uncomfortable seeing carrots with their tops lopped off in a totally mechanical manner on a conveyor belt, or beetroots boiled alive before their corpses were pushed through razor-sharp blades to slice them up, or corn ripped off their husks, or tomatoes... tomatoes... oh man, I feel nauseous, I think I'm going to throw up.

            1. OroPla · 1790343406 · focus · HN ↗

               You joke, but plants are alive and have feelings, just like everything else that is alive. They have the ability to communicate using ultrasound and they can pick up your brainwaves and respond to them.

               There's a plant that can change the shape it grows its leaf to match what other plant is around them - that includes copying artificial plants. So it has to be possible for a plant to "see".

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