Would You Eat Laboratory-Grown Meat?

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I already asked this question, but realized that I posted it in the wrong category...so I wanted to try again and see if the response is any different.  

I read an article that said some European researchers (can't remember which country) had successfully grown fish in a laboratory and they're working on pork, ground beef and chicken nuggets. The author of the article suggests that we may have no need for slaughterhouses in the future and may be able to put this part of our barbaric past behind us, as we did with slavery. How do you feel about this? For you die-hard carnivores, does the thought of eating laboratory-grown meat bother you? Vegetarians, would you start eating meat again if it didn't involve the slaughter of animals, or do you not even crave the taste of meat?  With laboratory meat, they could apparently get rid of risks such as salmonella, mad cow, e. coli and bird flu...does that make you feel any differently?

Irish · Accepted Answer

Sure, why not. I don't know what I'm eating most of the time anyway.

lynda_is · Answer

Lab grown meat probably would not have the possibility of say mad cow disease.  I eat meat anyway, and prefer to think it comes straight from the grocery store and not from a farm.

smokingun · Answer

As a carnivore, part of the satisfaction of eating meat comes from the fact that what I am eating was once walking/flying/jumping.

I don't eat twinkies, so why would I eat synthetic meat?

genuine♥ · Answer

Yeah I wish I was vegetarian but I don't know how to start... been eating meat my whole life and my parents eat it all the time..

wcholberg · Answer

Vegetarian for 30 years...not a chance.  

As for craving, a steak on the grill still smells really good, but I don't really desire to eat it.

fieldmouse · Answer

sounds utterly revolting to me.

Since you ask I have been a vegetarian for the last 25 years and don't crave meat.

sioux m · Answer

No.  I would never eat any type of meat grown in a lab.  that's nasty sounding.  I would never even eat a soy burger, either.

dixie_til_i_die · Answer

Nope, wouldnt eat it.  Don't eat alot of meat anyhow, but what I do, I raise.
Tried soy burgers, ugh! disgusting.

Anonymous · Answer

no actually im thinking of even becoming a vegetarian but their are sooooo many good foods that have meat.
HOWEVER, i am still killing an animal

Shelbzz · Answer

i dont think this sounds too healthy. its cool they dont need to kill animals but how healthy is tis really? im sure they put other unknown substances that cant be too beneficial for youir health...

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Would You Eat Laboratory-Grown Meat?

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