My vegan perspective: I’m uncomfortable with foods that continue to reproduce the aesthetics of exploitation and probably wouldn’t eat it myself. But because it’s affect on the world would likely include a sizable reduction in actual real animal exploitation, I’d welcome it’s introduction and maybe even promote it to some.
I love plant based food and will eat it rather than meat any day. I’m far from a vegan though. A couple of friends are vegan and refuse to eat plant based food which even resembles a meat product. Burgers which imitate beef for example. I personally think these products are great as it gives meat eaters something to relate to and try plant based food.
Lab meat though. I’m struggling to understand this. Unless the meat industry shuts down most people aren’t going to eat lab meat. And like you said it doesn’t offer a good enough reason to switch for most people. Some people might switch but it will have no impact on the meat supply chain.
Lab meat though. I’m struggling to understand this. Unless the meat industry shuts down most people aren’t going to eat lab meat. And like you said it doesn’t offer a good enough reason to switch for most people. Some people might switch but it will have no impact on the meat supply chain.
There’s a pretty large amount of people who are vaguely uncomfortable with the animal cruelty in the meat and dairy industries but can’t get over themselves to completely change their diet to a plant-based one.
I also expect lab grown meat to be both cheaper and more environmentally friendly once the technology is more advanced and mature. It doesn’t really make sense to compare an immature technology like this to conventional food right now.
Not usually, though I’ve been in situations where I’m at a bar and that’s literally the only vegan option on the menu. I’ve joked in the past that bean burgers are such a crumbly disasater that they fail to replicate the aesthetics of meat entirely, whereas impossible patties do it so well that I’m paranoid and examining the pattie over and over again and asking the barkeep if he’s sure this is the vegan one. Either way they’re not my idea of fun.
Thats an interesting take.
Most people don’t eat meat specifically because its exploitative, they eat it because its easier (relatively) to get the needed nutrients through meat, and because its taste and texture are hard to replicate.
Lab grown meat manages to do this (hopefully) without any exploitation.
My vegan perspective: I’m uncomfortable with foods that continue to reproduce the aesthetics of exploitation and probably wouldn’t eat it myself. But because it’s affect on the world would likely include a sizable reduction in actual real animal exploitation, I’d welcome it’s introduction and maybe even promote it to some.
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Those are aesthetics
I love plant based food and will eat it rather than meat any day. I’m far from a vegan though. A couple of friends are vegan and refuse to eat plant based food which even resembles a meat product. Burgers which imitate beef for example. I personally think these products are great as it gives meat eaters something to relate to and try plant based food.
Lab meat though. I’m struggling to understand this. Unless the meat industry shuts down most people aren’t going to eat lab meat. And like you said it doesn’t offer a good enough reason to switch for most people. Some people might switch but it will have no impact on the meat supply chain.
Economics of scale, simple. If a sausage with lab grown meat is 75% of the regular sausages, or cheaper a big portion of the populous will switch.
The more people that switch the bigger the scale gets. Till it gets to the most efficient input -> meat like product.
There’s a pretty large amount of people who are vaguely uncomfortable with the animal cruelty in the meat and dairy industries but can’t get over themselves to completely change their diet to a plant-based one.
I also expect lab grown meat to be both cheaper and more environmentally friendly once the technology is more advanced and mature. It doesn’t really make sense to compare an immature technology like this to conventional food right now.
Curious because you mention aesthetics being key - do you do black bean burgers, beyond burgers, etc?
Not usually, though I’ve been in situations where I’m at a bar and that’s literally the only vegan option on the menu. I’ve joked in the past that bean burgers are such a crumbly disasater that they fail to replicate the aesthetics of meat entirely, whereas impossible patties do it so well that I’m paranoid and examining the pattie over and over again and asking the barkeep if he’s sure this is the vegan one. Either way they’re not my idea of fun.
Haha those after my experiences with the products as well. Cheers!
Thats an interesting take. Most people don’t eat meat specifically because its exploitative, they eat it because its easier (relatively) to get the needed nutrients through meat, and because its taste and texture are hard to replicate. Lab grown meat manages to do this (hopefully) without any exploitation.