I am fully behind research in lab grown food. I see a great potential for it.
I think it is a good fail safe for "extinction level" disaster, whether natural or man made. These could be things like nuclear winter, asteroid impact, and population crash for our natural food sources.
I also see it as key to space colonization. It would be a long time before any non-earth based long term colonization would be able to include livestock food sources.
If people want to step up and volunteer to be the guinea pigs for it, more power to them. Some people can't eat anything except chicken nuggets and french fries. Sure, I guess. Whatever makes them happy. If some kook wants to do it for strange personal beliefs? Bless their little hearts.
Fail safe? The problem with an "extinction level" disaster is encapsulated in the name. Pretty sure lab grown meat will be the last thing we'll be spending our energy on as a species in such a situation.
Until then, lab grown meat is a globalists' wet dream -- imagine the kinds of novel interventions to be delivered via an innocuous polystyrene tray at the supermarket? Lab grown meat -- an abstraction of actual meat -- may very well BE the catalyst for an extinction level event. Or at least a culling of the useless eaters only too happy to fool themselves into the simulacra of food.
It's not a stretch for that kind of thing to happen. Avian flu, Hog Cholera, Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting Disease, Chestnut Blight, Potato Famine are all fairly recent examples. Our monoculture method of agriculture presents the risk of huge portions of our food sources being wiped out all at once. It could take years to recover. It has taken about a hundred years until we have just started being able to recover from the Chestnut blight that wiped out a huge food source.
Then we get to look at environmental disaster such as drought
That doesn't even take into effect the risk of intentional sabotage.
Where do you go when you get to the butcher's shop and they don't have anything to sell?
Um, the Chronic Wasting Disease is affecting deer, elk, and moose. The Chestnut trees *were* the forest. It is not just domesticated farm animals that are affected by these things.
No problem. The coast with a rod and reel. Or is chestnut blight and chronic wasting disease in the water, too? Technology is not always a panacea. And the supermarket and butcher aren't the only places to find sustenance. Gotta stop thinking conventionally, IMHO... unless you're OK with eating what 'they' want you to eat. Be my guest.
I will never eat lab grown. Thank you for bringing more awareness to this very important issue. It's beyond my understanding that people think healthy meat can be grown in a lab, in sterile conditions, and be beneficial to a humans complex microbial, digestive, immune and neurological systems needs. It's garbage.
Excellent, love the image ..it does say it all. You are more fortunate in the US with states banning it, that will not happen in the UK .
Freedom Food! As if! 🤣🤣🤣
I am fully behind research in lab grown food. I see a great potential for it.
I think it is a good fail safe for "extinction level" disaster, whether natural or man made. These could be things like nuclear winter, asteroid impact, and population crash for our natural food sources.
I also see it as key to space colonization. It would be a long time before any non-earth based long term colonization would be able to include livestock food sources.
If people want to step up and volunteer to be the guinea pigs for it, more power to them. Some people can't eat anything except chicken nuggets and french fries. Sure, I guess. Whatever makes them happy. If some kook wants to do it for strange personal beliefs? Bless their little hearts.
Fail safe? The problem with an "extinction level" disaster is encapsulated in the name. Pretty sure lab grown meat will be the last thing we'll be spending our energy on as a species in such a situation.
Until then, lab grown meat is a globalists' wet dream -- imagine the kinds of novel interventions to be delivered via an innocuous polystyrene tray at the supermarket? Lab grown meat -- an abstraction of actual meat -- may very well BE the catalyst for an extinction level event. Or at least a culling of the useless eaters only too happy to fool themselves into the simulacra of food.
I'll opt for the butcher, thanks very much.
It's not a stretch for that kind of thing to happen. Avian flu, Hog Cholera, Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting Disease, Chestnut Blight, Potato Famine are all fairly recent examples. Our monoculture method of agriculture presents the risk of huge portions of our food sources being wiped out all at once. It could take years to recover. It has taken about a hundred years until we have just started being able to recover from the Chestnut blight that wiped out a huge food source.
Then we get to look at environmental disaster such as drought
That doesn't even take into effect the risk of intentional sabotage.
Where do you go when you get to the butcher's shop and they don't have anything to sell?
The forest. With a .30-06!
Um, the Chronic Wasting Disease is affecting deer, elk, and moose. The Chestnut trees *were* the forest. It is not just domesticated farm animals that are affected by these things.
No problem. The coast with a rod and reel. Or is chestnut blight and chronic wasting disease in the water, too? Technology is not always a panacea. And the supermarket and butcher aren't the only places to find sustenance. Gotta stop thinking conventionally, IMHO... unless you're OK with eating what 'they' want you to eat. Be my guest.
For a short term issue that is fine. For long term issues, it just isn't feasible. That is why the Irish fled Ireland during the famine.
Competition for the options will be fierce and no where near the abundance necessary for long term replacement for the population at large.
People get hungry enough and pretty soon, *you* are the unconventional food source for people thinking outside the box.
I will never eat lab grown. Thank you for bringing more awareness to this very important issue. It's beyond my understanding that people think healthy meat can be grown in a lab, in sterile conditions, and be beneficial to a humans complex microbial, digestive, immune and neurological systems needs. It's garbage.
100% agree.