Okay, in people's efforts to avoid eating animals, they have really gone a little crazy. They are talking about creating a meat culturing factory. They say it will help animals and save the environment, but I have to question that. First, culturing cells requires some major cost and space and it requires a completely sterile lab. The cost of maintaining this and running it seems to me like it would cause more of an environmental problem than raising the meat.
Yes, it would be more humane, but it wouldn't be humane to humans. I am sure that cultured meat would not be as nutritious - it certainly doesn't taste the same. Also, most cells grown in culture eventually turn into cancer (at least human cells do). Finally, I would have to wonder how long before the stem cells from aborted fetuses found their way into our cultured meat supply.
If the ethics behind eating meat bother you - don't eat it. All too often I find "vegan" recipes trying to use meat substitutes that "taste" like meat. Then they dump a ton of garlic in it to cover what it really tastes like. If you miss meat that much, just get over it and eat meat.
For the record, I am a reformed vegetarian. I do force myself to eat meat, but not because I like it. I do it because I cannot afford all the vegetarian foods I would need in order to have a balanced diet. I also do it because I have a family, and it is extremely difficult to provide children with nutritious meals that are vegetarian.
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