[howlin]

Fungi make up one of three primary kingdoms of multicellular life. Mushrooms and other fungus have a variety of flavors already, and some of them are quite meat-like. Given fungus cells are more similar to animal than they are plant, it is possible that they can be selectively bred or engineered to taste more meat-like.

I wouldn't be too dismissive of the potential here.

[Loughla]

I'm not being dismissive, but was instead responding to a completely useless argument based on the ideal. Ideally, people will choose to eat mushroom instead of meat.

An ideal situation only exists in a textbook, and dealing with reality is what we should do, was sort of my point.

[beefpies]

> I'm not being dismissive, but was instead responding to a completely useless argument....

Listen to yourself.

[Loughla]

Sorry, let me explain more.

I'm not being dismissive of the use of mushrooms as a meat argument. But I was being dismissive of the moral superiority based, "you should do this because it's right" argument being made framed by mushrooms.

I hope that's more clear.

[asah]

there's a startup for that: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hedgehog-2

[s0rce]

Anything is probably possible eventually, you could engineer a fungus to grow and taste like meat. Is it economical and possible with current technology, maybe not.