Cultivated meat, precision fermentation, and GMO agriculture are expanding globally as regulators, researchers, and farming industries debate long-term impacts on health, food security, and traditional agriculture.
Cultivated meat, precision fermentation, and GMO agriculture are expanding globally as regulators, researchers, and farming industries debate long-term impacts on health, food security, and traditional agriculture.
That people aren’t willing to even question how animal suffering has been normalized to the extent it has. I’m not fully vegetarian or vegan even if I’m trying to reduce meat consumption. But I’ve had this conversation with people and some don’t even want to discuss this while eating arguing it ruins their appetite. I think its a great thing that Lab-grown meat could end the suffering of animals in many ways in the future. And people will look back and ask how we could ever do something so awful to animals.
What I think is sad is that for the short foreseeable future animal suffering will still be treated as normality and nothing will change until there is no reason or way it will inconvenience humans in any way to shift away. I find that morally appalling to some regard
I think A LOT of people are completely unaware.
There’s an entire subset of people who essentially create their own reality and anything that contradicts it is immediately rejected, completely at a subconscious level, so the idea of questioning doesn’t even cross their minds.
These people are all over lemmy!
The other day I went out for lunch with a friend and some acquaintances. One guy ordered a burger, and then he went on for a little time about how is it possible there are enough cows for everyone to have a burger? How many burgers can you get from a cow? Where are all these cows coming from??
So I said it’s factory farming, these cows are produced for the sake of their meat. A cow is huge, a quarter cow is enough meat to feed a family for a whole year. I don’t think this guy was being purposefully obtuse, because I don’t know him to have that kind of personality, so the only remaining explanation is he really is that ignorant/stupid. In this age, we have lots of people who don’t care, or wilfully turn their eye from it. But to not know?