to ask vegetarians if they would eat lab grown meat?

[vitamink]

The cost of lab grown meat has apparently come down from over $300,000 to $11. If this could replace meat harvested from the killing of animals but would still use animal genetics at a microscopic level to grow these burgers (without harming live animals), would you eat them? The same goes with genetically produced milk, grown by combining genetically modified yeast?

I'm not a vegetarian and I would definitely eat lab grown meat. I think this is the future of food.

Vegan - nu uh. No way. Yuck!

Er...no I wouldn't, because it sounds fucking terrifying.

To me, this seems to be the epitome of what I hate about people in general.

Hey! we love stuffing our faces with animals, but there's not enough room for the animals any more combined with massive population growth. Awesome idea, rather than simply changing our diets to a something much healthier by using foods that already exist in nature, and hugely cut down on our meat consumption...let's just GROW MEAT IN A LAB.

Many things we use daily do not exist in nature. Does not make them inherently bed/evil. They might even find a way of make meat less carcinogenic. Growing edible meat is probably at least partly driving/driven by the need and research on for lab grown organs and tissues for medical purposes. Anyone object to those?

bad!!!

I don't object to growing organs because it is an actual necessity. People will die without a replacement heart.

No-one is going to die because they couldn't eat a burger every day. There's a big difference between mixing a bunch of stuff together to make a new oil or syrup, and between making actual flesh purely for consumption. Why should we find a way to make meat less carcinogenic? Why not just eat less of it? What happens to all the domesticated animals once fake meat is available? Driven to extinction and the land sold off for some rich twat to build a new shopping centre?

It's not just about the concept of it not existing in nature - there are also huge moral issues around the companies themselves. Look at fucking Monsanto in America.

I don't think I would have a huge problem with eating it, but don't find the idea very appealing.

I would be very interested if someone could make lab-milk though and it could become widely used, because although I cut out bottled milk, it is still in a lot of things and I find cheese hard to avoid in our culture, so I just try to keep my intake down.

Although I agree with goodnessgracious that it's a bit lame people can't just stop eating dead animals, I would much rather everyone just swap to lab meat and factory farming came to an end.

Not veggie but really don't fancy lab-grown meat.

Although I do eat a little meat, it's less and less as time goes on and I'd prefer to eat even less of the real deal than some processed alternative.

Or farming in general, to add.

Well, in an ideal world lots of things would be different, but it's never going to be an ideal world (however dissapointing a thought that is). I think any changes we can make to human habits, however small, are good. I don't automatically think that lab meat will be hugely unethically produced. If it can reduce animal suffering and reduce land use for cattle, it's sounds good to me so far. Whatever happens to that land we don't yet know, but at least there might be a chance that it will be used fir growing edible crops or build more (affordable) housing.

I don't get the 'processed' issue. Genetically/chemically, wouldn't a lab grown steak be the same as a piece of dead cow? It's completely different to quorn in that respect. I know that it's not very natural, but there are plenty more chemical nasties in products that most people consume every day and think nothing of, like bread or squash for instance - I would consider them to be more 'processed'.

I eat meat and would happily ear lab grown meat, if it were regulated well.

Eat even