[buu700]

I'm not a vegetarian, but I had some recent comments on this, as someone who's currently using Beyond Meat as their primary protein source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/gtrcm5/comment/...

tl;dr:

* It's potentially safer than meat during the pandemic

* I support any advancements that may enable humanity to phase out killing animals over the long term, such as clean meat (lab-grown meat) and plant-based meat

* It's one of a very small number of high-quality (high-PDCAAS and low-carbohydrate) protein sources that I'm aware of

* Enjoyment-wise, it's a close enough substitute for my taste

* I'm somewhat concerned about it being a heavily processed food as well as reportedly having its pea protein isolate sourced from China, and I wish they would reduce (or eliminate) the canola oil in favor of more coconut oil, but afaict there's nothing obviously terrible in it

[throwaway20148]

> Long-term I believe humanity should phase out killing animals anyway (via either clean/lab-grown meat or future iterations of plant-based meat)

This inclusive of hunting and (recreational) fishing? If so how do we do animal population and habitat management?

[buu700]

I mean, in an ideal world no one would ever die or be unhappy, but I won't pretend to be an expert on all the legitimate reasons that we kill things.

I should have phrased that as phasing out specifically killing animals for food. I fish myself, and I'm not advocating for any kind of drastic short-term change; over the long term, it's conceivable to me that use cases like recreational fishing could be addressed with AI robot fish and/or highly immersive VR/AR.