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[Lab-grown meat becomes economically viable] "LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!"
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As a vegetarian who will happily eat vegan when the opportunity presents itself, I can't wait for there to be affordable lab-grown meat that is almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
As an omnivore who will happily eat vegetarian or vegan when the opportunities presents themselves, I too, and looking forward to lab grown meat.
Would you or @Klanky@sopuli.xyz be interested in helping to grow and moderate a threadiverse community on this topic?
Akin to r/wheresthebeef in The Other Place, though we wouldn't necessarily have to use the same name.
As much as I enjoy the food, it is far too politically charged for me to want to weigh in via moderation. Many vegans would eat me alive (figuratively, as I contain meat) for supporting animal murder. Many carnivores and other omnivores would do the same assume that anyone that likes eating vegetarian or vegan occasionally or regularly is trying to take away their choice to eat meat.
Understandable. If others were to take on the responsibility of moderation, would you help grow the community through posts or comments?
Perhaps. I have had to avoid participating and a number of the vegan Lemmy communities because of the aforementioned contentiousness. I'd be wary about participating in another.
I hear you. I've noticed that there tends to be a certain puritanical aspect to many vegetarian and vegan communities which I find somewhat perplexing, and think often runs counter to their own goals.
My hope for the new community would be to focus on the technological and economic barriers (and breakthroughs) to scaling production of lab-grown meat.
Ethical and ecological factors are an implicit bonus, but I don't expect there would really be much to discuss.
"Think of the morality" 🤝 "Think of the efficiency"
🤝 = Lab-Grown Meat
Fuckin' pastures and cultivated animal feed taking up massive swathes of land.
Huge… tracts of land, you might say.