Not only that but us fucking over the local ecology we have to step in and kill off some numbers of prey species or they will literally starve to death. It's fucked up, but we're in this mess and until we collectively are fine with wolves et al, we'll need to continue it.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Fun fact, the wolf reintroduction efforts in many places across the US have been going very well! I'm only posting this because you mentioned wolves and I think it's like one of the very few positive environmental stories I know of. We still need to hunt (mostly deer) to keep population from exceeding the habitat carrying capacity in many places. But it's super neat that there's people out there working to restore some of the collective harm on the environment that we've caused.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

... That's.... I've never thought about it that way.

What about ethical for the farmer/hunter?

And what about lab-grown meat? We aren't totally there yet, but it could have big implications for the meat industry.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Prior post to this one but the ecology in some areas of the USA and North America in general are so fucked that unless we literally thin the herd they will die of starvation.

It's ethical for a farmer to protect themselves and live stock but many are gun ho about killing all predators. Given that a lot of farms tend to be remote, you have a rifle in the truck and pack a pistol to at least try to scare away the animal.

Lab-grown meat will likely have an odd taste to it but is more likely to be morally acceptable.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lab-grown meat will likely have an odd taste

Considering we can taste the difference between corn-fed and grass-fed beef, I'd imagine they would work on figuring out the nutrient slurry that makes the meatalog taste best. They might even be able to improve the taste, texture, marbling, &c. I just don't expect the first generation product to be great

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

It would still be a massive, amazing development just needs some time to properly age.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

There's no such thing as lab grown meat and if there ever will be it's not in the near term

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Only if you kill the prey bare arms only.