[uniqueid]

I personally eat meat, but I suspect very few people will a century from now - not meat from a slaughterhouse anyways.

No, we'll grow meat cheaply in labs, and the companies who produce it won't have much trouble blackening the reputation of real meat. Most people, even today, like to dwell neither on the death of the animals we eat, nor the cleanliness of the factory farms that provide us with our meat.

It probably will appall people in the future that we killed animals just to eat. They won't have first-hand experience of our time. They'll know, on a cerebral level, the technical reasons that fake meat was impractical, but, on an emotional level, our habits will disgust them.

[coldtea]

>It probably will appall people in the future that we killed animals just to eat.

That's extrapolating from the future distancing from nature and sterilization and abstraction imposed over life.

It's also possible that people in the future will get their meat if and when they find it, and fight like crazy to secure it, under more dystopian conditions. If they're not lucky, there will always be ground worms and bugs, seaweeds, and Soylent Green.

Or the population has stabilized quite lower, after climate change impact, famines, wars, water conflicts, etc., and the rest can grow and eat their meat in a more sustainable way...

[uniqueid]

Yes. I wrote 'probably' but there are too many unknowns to have much certainty about anything a century from now. For all I know, we'll start lobbing nukes around until the planet is a wasteland.