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by Beijinger 698 days ago
"I eat real meat!"

Cultivated meat IS real meat from meat cells, it is not a meat imitation based on soy, wheat or whatever. Potentially much safer. Think of dead zombie disease or suspected cancer risk of beef.

https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/news/new-p...

https://publichealth.gmu.edu/news/2024-03/should-you-be-worr...

Why do animals have to suffer for our meat supply?

“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.” ― Leo Tolstoy

(The quote sounds batter in other languages, since battlefields are "slaughter fields")

Best, Beijinger, not a vegetarian

3 comments

Animals are part of this thing called the cycle of life that has been going on since near the beginning of the earth and will go on long after humanity has faded to dust. Being eaten is normal, it's part of how ecosystems are regulated, and everything dies anyhow so why not be a meal on the way out so that something else can live.

If you want to direct your rage somewhere, direct it at the people who force these animals into concentration camp like environments to maximize production. That's the true evil, not eating meat.

True, but I hoped we could become more than animals in the future.
Why? I like food and sex and raising my children. I _am_ an animal, even if I have mastered fire and language and agriculture.
Well, what has this to do with killing animals?

How did someone say? To kill someone, cut off his head and build a nice vase out of it is called culture. To have to go to prison for it is called civilization.

Besides that, raising animals for meat is terrible energy inefficient.

There is quite the difference between slaughtering an animal for food, and murder. Do you disagree?
Given the existence of delicious foods not made of meat, the difference is one of law, and of which of the major world religions' ethical norms you follow.
Raising animals for meat is not energy inefficient. Those cows control the grasses and help with natural succession of trees and shrubs, while fertilizing the soil and providing nutrients for many animals. It costs literally nothing to leave a cow in a field, and it makes the field better.

What's energy inefficient is trying to grow a thousand cows in a feedlot.

In this thread: angry vegans trying to force their opinions on others with bad logic and downvotes.
Proverbs that rely on word play are fun, but not profound.
My dad preferably (to meat) eats cartilage, collagene, etc... off the bones (using a knife)... his dog then eats whatever is left. Anyone working on that?