Interesting little survey about would you eat meat grown in a laboratory petri dish. Go take a virtual taste test and vote.
Hat tip to Susan
February 25, 2007
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What happened to the spambot, Walter?
They may be able to produce ‘food’ this way, but I doubt they will ever produce anything that truly resembles meat.
Meat is not just a matter of growing muscle tissue - they kind of gloss over the complexity of the product they claim they can produce, but I don’t think that ‘adding connective tissue and fat’ is going to give them a product that is acceptable to the average meat eater.
If you go to the forum, there are a couple of disturbing comments about *having* to go vegetarian/vegan - I wish people would think these things through more carefully. It may be that we expect to eat more meat than is practical in the long term, but a vegetarian/vegan global diet would put other stresses on the environment which is somehow never discussed.
I would, just one time, like to see a real, nitty-gritty realistic discussion about this rose coloured proposition.
How will they sustain the fertility of the land, do you suppose? Or are they going to use more tonnage of chemical fertilizers than they do now, on GMC perhaps?
If so, how is that better, I wonder? Is it considered more sustainable? Healthier?
I think what we need to feed the most people the most reliably is good farming practise, rather than agribiz.
But that seems to be the hardest point to get across :-(
[Agreed on all points. All to many vegetarians/vegans do it for PC reasons and fail to really think things through. The reality is a vegan or even a vegetarian diet is not sustainable in our northern climate here in Vermont. One must use vitamins and supplements. Most of the year we can not grow much in the way of food. Livestock are a way of storing food for winter. The reality is we’re omnivores who eat animals that make good use of land that is not otherwise useful for cropping. But the fanatics miss those points. On the spambot killer, it’s currently turned off because too many people have had trouble with it. I’m looking for a replacement. The comment after yours was spam. Right now the load is light but some days it is hundreds. -WalterJ]
Comment Lynn — February 25, 2007 @ 7:31 pm
A few weeks ago I found a site with a multi-storied hydronponic “farm.” It was the size of a seven-story parking garage, but was a multi-story greenhouse.
Just tried and failed to find it again and found this article. Thought you all would appreciate this final line:
From “No Green Acres? Try Skyscrapers” link
[One small step for factory farming, one giant leap off the cliff for humanity. -WJ]
Comment Elizabeth Nobbe — February 25, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
First of all that’s disgusting. I can’t believe that the vote was about 50%.
I am curious though, as to what the animals that we use for food will be doing after we all convert to vegetarians. The zoos aren’t pc, and we can’t let them overtake the soybean fields…maybe we’ll all have to adopt a companion heifer.
Thanks for all the news. I wouldn’t be as informed without this site.
Elizabeth
Comment Elizabeth — February 26, 2007 @ 12:56 am
I agree with Elizabeth, thats disgusting. Just the thought of it makes me sick to my stomach. Considering all the things going on today, what will things be like in 20 years? I won’t be here, but my kids and grandkids are going to have a miserable life if this continues. NEVER give up the fight!
Comment Greg — February 26, 2007 @ 9:54 am
Folks,
I thought you would like to know about this looming problem.
If you haven’t used this resource–ATTRA–you may not be aware of the service it performs in helping beginning and not so beginning farmers find ways to do things without agribusiness.
The funding that keeps this service going is scheduled to cease this week. If you would like to register a complaint about this go to the following link and sign the letter to restore funding for ATTRA in fiscal year 2007–
link
There is a good description of what ATTRA is and does at this link.
Thank you for your help.
Luane Todd, AR
Comment Luane Todd — February 26, 2007 @ 3:51 pm