Conscious Carnivorism = Making Meat in Labs??
31 05 2008It sounds so sci-fi…but this article from slate.com suggests that the way to be a conscious eater is not to necessarily be a vegetarian, but to hope for a future where scientists generate meat products in labs, eliminating the pesky need for methane/carbon dioxide producing animals.
It’s an interesting concept, especially when many people would never choose vegetarianism as a lifestyle and when, as the article says, “creating a pound’s worth of beef releases the same amount of greenhouses gases—the equivalent of 36.4 pounds of carbon dioxide—as driving a car 155 miles at 50 miles per hour. And that’s an underestimate of the industry’s total impact, since the study didn’t account for emissions from farm equipment or the fuel expended on transporting product from killing floor to supermarket.”
Totally sounds unappetizing, but I’ll bet you people said the airplane sounded unappetizing back in when it was first invented, right?!
Link to Slate article on Making Meat in Labs
lab grown steak? if this kind of stuff happens it could end up like those food replicator/vending machines on star trek. and then you would just be sitting in front of it pushing “hot dog” all day.