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06-08-2012, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Conan

I remember you saying you just plain don't like meat, right?

I wonder how many vegans would start eating meat again if they forged ahead with that laboratory grown stuff. If you're "growing" what amounts to a big hunk of flesh with no central nervous system or brain to speak of, what's the harm done? That's if they're vegan for moral reasons, which - correct me if I'm wrong - is probably the majority of vegans, as opposed to vegetarians doing it for health reasons.

I have a weird relationship with food, I overthink everything that's in what I eat. Since meat is flesh, I could never really think of it as food. So I guess it's a moral issue and just not liking meat.

I wouldn't eat it even if it was grown without a brain or nervous system, it would still gross me the **** out.

Stephen · 06-09-2012, 09:42 AM

I think for me meat has been abject for so long it wouldn't make much difference if it were cultured it would still repulse me. Plus I imagine it must have been derived from an animal at some point. In any case it's pretty creepy.

The Batlord · 06-09-2012, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Hermione

No. People are vegetarians for different reasons, though. So I can't speak for all vegetarians, but I wouldn't eat any animals.

Well, what if we somehow found a way to be able to consume amoebas? Or plankton? Or whatever? Basically, if any living thing could hypothetically be consumed, what would the boundary be for you?

Edit: Morally speaking of course.

06-09-2012, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by stp

I think for me meat has been abject for so long it wouldn't make much difference if it were cultured it would still repulse me. Plus I imagine it must have been derived from an animal at some point. In any case it's pretty creepy.

I don't really understand the creepiness factor. It would save the lives of animals and protect the environment – I know about the stigma, but just have personally never felt it.

Stephen · 06-10-2012, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Conan

I don't really understand the creepiness factor. It would save the lives of animals and protect the environment – I know about the stigma, but just have personally never felt it.

So for arguments sake how would you feel about cultured human meat?

Paedantic Basterd · 06-10-2012, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by stp

So for arguments sake how would you feel about cultured human meat?

I don't think this makes a good argument, because it's meat we wouldn't ever ordinarily eat, and it has nothing to do ith cruelty in the industry.

Perhaps cultured dog meat would make a better argument? I think I would try it, if I knew it came out of a petri dish* and not a dog.

*Almost said "if it came out of a lab" but that's ambiguous isn't it?

06-10-2012, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by stp

So for arguments sake how would you feel about cultured human meat?

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

I don't think this makes a good argument, because it's meat we wouldn't ever ordinarily eat, and it has nothing to do ith cruelty in the industry.

Perhaps cultured dog meat would make a better argument? I think I would try it, if I knew it came out of a petri dish* and not a dog.

*Almost said "if it came out of a lab" but that's ambiguous isn't it?

That's hilarious.

Pedestrian makes a good point. And to answer her question – I'd definitely eat dog meat if I liked the taste. I'd probably eat it if I visited China and it didn't come from a... Ahem.. Petri dish. And I love dogs.

Human meat wouldn't happen. There's a taboo around that which needs to be there. I'm not a biologist or anything, but I believe we (remote tribal customs notwithstanding) evolved a nearly hardwires aversion to it.

But hell – even if some company started selling it, at least it isn't killing humans.

Stephen · 06-10-2012, 09:00 AM

I guess personally I find animal corpses only marginally less repulsive than human ones so the comparison of cultured human meat was I guess an attempt at explaining my perspective on the issue.

**Janszoon** · 06-10-2012, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

*Almost said "if it came out of a lab" but that's ambiguous isn't it?

06-10-2012, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Well, what if we somehow found a way to be able to consume amoebas? Or plankton? Or whatever? Basically, if any living thing could hypothetically be consumed, what would the boundary be for you?

Edit: Morally speaking of course.

Pretty much anything that I am conscious of it being "alive" outside of plants, really.

As for the human meat thing, lol. I kind of feel like eating animal would be the same as eating human, that's why it disgusts me so much

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06-09-2012, 09:42 AM	#9942 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,869	I think for me meat has been abject for so long it wouldn't make much difference if it were cultured it would still repulse me. Plus I imagine it must have been derived from an animal at some point. In any case it's pretty creepy.

06-10-2012, 09:00 AM	#9948 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,869	I guess personally I find animal corpses only marginally less repulsive than human ones so the comparison of cultured human meat was I guess an attempt at explaining my perspective on the issue.