If both types of meat are bioidentical, what's the problem? Because one of them didn't grow up with a brain, love its mommy and get slaughtered in a filthy slaughterhouse then chopped up in a filthy meat packing factory filled with flies and feces? You seem to have more of a philosophical issue than a technical one.
It is both. But scientifically, the lab grown substance is simply not meat. This is a scientific fact, not a philosophical one. Meat that our bodies are meant to consume is indeed meat. Our bodies were designed to process "filthy" meat sources. Do you not realize that processing meats and eating clean and inspected foodstuffs is a relatively modern thing? Humans hunted and killed wild animals (as you also have said you do), they skin and butcher them and then eat them. And again, you have used an example of non-organic meat sources to bolster your argument. Organic meats are NOT processed in filthy slautherhouses. BTW, all slaughterhouses are required to maintain a certain level of sanitation.
I do not care about the familial relationships between food animals and their parents or offspring. I think that philosophically, it is illogical to form an emotional relationship with your food.
Organic. I read some of your posts and you seem like someone who questions everything. You rage against mainstream consensus on various subjects yet you gleefully boast that you buy organic food as if it's any different. You draw some rather squiggly lines in the sand.
I do question everything. It would be very unwise not to do so, given the absolute insanity permeating our society today. I do know where my meat comes from. And yes, organically raised foodstuffs are MUCH different than non-organic, especially in California where the term "organic" is a legal classification backed by state laws and punitive punishments extending far beyond the basic USDA requirements. I can actually drive to where my meat is sourced and walk through the facility.
http://www.eatwild.com/products/california.html
I cannot tell yet, but you seem to be somebody who is an early adopter of trends without knowing all of the facts. This is not meant to be an insult. Lab grown "meat" is not meat.
meat
/mēt/
noun
- 1.
the flesh of an animal (especially a mammal) as food.
"pieces of meat"
synonyms: flesh, muscle
The only organic anything you can be sure of is free of any crap is what you grow yourself in your own, isolated environment. Even hunting or fishing won't guarantee your food is free from contaminants.
Not true. I do not know what state you live in, but I live in California where you CAN be sure your food is free of crap. Also, what exactly is a "contaminant" to you? Dirt?
Our bodies are designed to eat meat and plants. For hundreds of thousands of years, that meat and those plants could have insect eggs and dirt on them, and the meat could be from a sick animal who died of disease. Yet, the body would process the meat as it does for all other animals. And make no mistake, humans are animals. Eating sterilized foods and lab grown substances is unnatural.
My view is let's give it a try rather than tear it down before it hits the shelves. I'm sure you've changed your mind on many things throughout your life that, at the time, were things you firmly dug your feet into the cement about and never thought you would ever think differently. I know I have.
Sure I have. I continue to try new things.
But I will never try lab grown meats, or new medications for things that food can cure. I will never have anything implanted, or eat substitutes for actual food.