I think they seem a little scary. And it seems sad to me that people are so unwilling to give up their meat that they are willing to eat this weird frankenfood.

I am torn - 90% of me is disgusted and can't understand why people simply won't eat less meat - but 10% of me acknowledges that that will never happen and I guess it's better than killing billions of animals.
I, for sure, wouldn't touch it!

I think they seem a little scary. And it seems sad to me that people are so unwilling to give up their meat that they are willing to eat this weird frankenfood.

Thank you!

I personally am vegetarian because of morals.
In my ideal world, no one would eat meat unless they live in a place where they must to survive (actually, in my ideal world, that place wouldn't exist). So how do you explain being so addicted to meat you just cant. stop. eating. it? It's just weird. And really gross to me. Ew.

Not only could I not eat this stem cell meat; I wouldn't want to.

I am also torn. People will not give up meat. Although as a vegan I wouldn't eat it, I am all for anything that saves having to torture, rape and slaughter millions of animals. And since it would greatly decrease methane production, it would also help with global warming. More research is needed, but if you got the texture and taste right, then made it cheaper than the "real" thing, I think people would eat it.

I've been hearing about this for a long time and am really excited about the progress. I don't know if it's something I'll eat a bunch of myself, though.

Let's face it - the masses are not the most intelligent and thoughtful people in the world. They will eat whatever Safeway places at eye level with a red price tag telling them it is a deal. If production can ramp up on this product and become cheap, sh*tty processed food companies will fill it with sugar and spice and things not-so-nice and market the hell out of it. People will put this on their sandwiches. Less animals will be tortured.

Win.

Oh - something I had not thought of: it could be used in pet food as well. Something that I know a lot of vegetarians / vegans struggle with is the dilemma of keeping a carnivore as a pet. We love our animals but wonder about how many others must suffer to continue feeding them.

Ecologically, eating as low on the food chain as possible is much better. I try to eat simple, plant-based, unprocessed and local/in-season as often as possible, and this doesn't really fit into any of those categories. Ultimately, as the population grows and the bio-productivity of the earth struggles to keep up, people are just going to have to stop eating as much meat. This is the carbon/fossil fuel/renewable energy issue played out in food instead. I don't think this burger is going to revolutionize anything. Seems like a silly first-world solution to appease those who can't let go of their attachment to a certain lifestyle. In other places in the world, people eat less meat and stretch what they have further. The simplest solution is to follow suit, and adjust our diets and lifestyles instead.

I'd rather eat a *kitten* sandwich.....:bigsmile:

The very idea of putting artificially grown meat in my mouth makes me want to vomit..literally. I gotta think of something else. :sick:

I suppose realistically, I don't believe that we will be able to continue at our current levels of consumption, of food and otherwise. It probably isn't going to be a choice. We couldn't feed the world the American diet, even if that were the goal. It uses too much energy, too much water, and too much land for far too little output. It's incredibly inefficient, and pretty soon, it just isn't going to be an option.

I'm guessing that a $300,000 burger produced in a laboratory does not come without a boatload of resource and energy requirements, and I'm saying it's a pipe dream if we think things are going to go on as they have indefinitely, especially with climate change, the erosion of huge percentages of the world's topsoils and the current unsustainable consumption of potable water.

The world is a finite place. We get closer to bumping up against it's biological carrying capacity with every birth. Lab burgers that rely on a ton of energy and technology are not going to feed the world. What will feed the world is localized food systems producing simple, low-energy nutritious foods for the masses, maybe supplemented with insects. A steady supply of meat is a first-world luxury, and one that will go away as more and more people divide up the existing resources.

I read about this the other day. The only positive thing that popped in my mind was in explaining why they were doing this, they explained the whole methane gas problem, and being able to continue to provide meat for the planet being impossible. I was excited with that particular message getting out there.

Other than that, I couldn't help but think - "gee, we aren't going to be able to supply meat at current levels in the future... what should we do??? A) eat less meat, encourage a plant based lifestyle and educate the masses as to all the benefits of that lifestyle? or grow meat in a lab and push that?