This reminds me of a science fiction 'graphic novel' i read in the late eighties where giant, flesh blobs / meat mountains (genetically engineered cows) were hooked up to life support systems in warehouses. The 'cow' would continually regenerate the meat that was cut from it. Yum yum!
I wouldn't eat it, but I don't eat meat anyway. I think it's a good idea. Not sure how they will keep animal populations down though. No one really knows what they eat anyway unless they do it all themselves. Maybe they are already doing this now? "We secretly switched Bud Hollingsworth's prime rib for lab-grown "meat". Let's get his reaction." I imagine it would go something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnSxrLbI5bI
You seem to be in an 'anti-meat' mood Nursey? what with this and the other post about turkeys. Either that or its just anti-animal crueltly type thing. As regards to the post though, I dont think people will notice the difference, they are already eating GM foods, foods with additives and life preserving chemicals, MSG, aspartame and other deadly shit and as stated, lots of processed foods in general, I'm sure we'll eventually not care about 'how it was made' either. I would go for it if it stopped the needless suffering of animals and it tasted close enough
Watching screaming, upside down turkeys being brutally fisted by slack-jawed, yee-hawing rednecks can have that effect. "You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals" Gandhi I was vegetarian for over ten years, but have eaten meat again for the past seven. But it's good to remind yourself of certain aspects of reality from time to time to help keep your decisions informed and avoid slipping into mind numbed complacency. I don't. It will just cause more problems (but in another area - human health). Which in turn will require more artificial solutions which will then cause other problems which need yet more artificial solutions and on and on and on. But in the meantime, the planet gets more and more fucked up with chemical factories spewing their poisons and cold, detached scientists in dazzling, bright labs genetically modifying and mutating reality to suit the modern world's insanity. They are like a macrocosmic manifestation of cancer cells, actually. People behaving like cold, emotionless robots produce the exact sort of (unnatural) circumstances which cause cancer. What happens on the grand (macro) scale is completely unified with what happens on the micro scale. They are one and the same thing. Why do you think the oncogene acts as though it is stuck in the "on" position? How might scientists use knowledge about receptors and how metastasis occurs to find ways to stop cancer? (Cell Replication and Cancerous Cells) It's ironic. The type of 'mentality' which causes the cells to operate like that is the one which those who are investigating them (pure intellect severed from conscience) are displaying. And as we know: "It's a quantum universe, baby." I think by this stage, we have enough evidence to say that the modern approach to living is flawed. Fatally. We need to stop, and trace the problem back to its root, not keep inventing ever more complex ways to cover it up. Because it will all catch up eventually, and then we'll have all hell to pay. "You are what you eat", and everything is a result of what preceded it. Food and food quality powerfully affects health, well being, and therefore happiness. A diet devoid of any real goodness is not going to produce a healthy, happy human race. A vegetable freshly plucked from the ground contains essential trace elements or micronutrients that quickly deteriorate after picking. A large part of the western diet is completely dead - like eating cardboard...all the vital life force long processed out of it. People that eat a diet like that will feel dull, sluggish and depressed physically and mentally. If you eat an animal that was content having been treated humanely and reared as naturally as possible (organically), the quality of the meat will be vastly superior to a mass factory farmed, stressed/freaked out creature which will be riddled with toxins that we in turn have to process. "Edible tissue" grown in a lab stimulated with electricity ('Frankenfood')...with no connection (like those detached scientists) to a centrally organising life force (their humanity) is surely how the cancerous tissue in a living organism operates? Uncontrolled cell division. The dna in our food affects our own dna. If something is 'wrong' i.e. against nature at the core, it will be wrong on the surface too. We can't make a silk purse from a whore's labial flap, can we? The problem isn't that we eat meat, it's that we eat far too much of it in modern technologically advanced societies. And treat the animals with no respect. If we ate a traditional human diet as has existed across the globe for millennia, a large percentage of the ailments that afflict modern man would be eradicated. Traditional diet (meat would be included as part of the 5% proteins): Traditional: Grains are the staple and make up 50% of the diet, which is the same in every traditional culture across the world. But we have departed from living in a way that the planet intended. If our ancestors had lived like us, we wouldn't even be here to arrogantly sniff our noses at their 'primitive' ways of living. The modern, western diet is more like this: With lots of starch, sugars and highly processed/refined foods. The problem of how we treat animals would not have been addressed, and the unhealthy western diet wouldn't have been improved if we take this approach (growing tissue for consumption). The bad has to be undone before we can expect any good to come of anything. It's the same on an individual level too, which is why i believe in using traditional (natural) medicine wherever possible which addresses the root cause of an imbalance instead of just altering/suppressing the surface manifestation of it, which just shifts the problem to another part of the body instead. Otherwise, where does it end?
I like having meat in my diet the Mediterranean diet does not look like my taste. However given the choice between that and eating a meat tumor I think I'd go Mediterranean.
Animal cruelty does get to me a bit I will have to say, its not the whole eating thing, its just the prolonged suffering. If you're going to eat something, kill it quickly and get it over with. I hope that karma effects everyone who treats any animal with disrespect, like the workers getting their hands crushed in machinery and many other horrible things. Its such a pity that humans are so 'protected' by laws and such, we sure as hell didn't earn it, nor do we deserve it. The animals deserve protection a lot more because they are innocent. Its such a horrible waste.
