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View Poll Results: Will you eat lab grown meat vs the actual animal meat? | |||
Yes | ![]() ![]() ![]() | 159 | 58.24% |
No | ![]() ![]() ![]() | 114 | 41.76% |
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| ![]() Voted no. I gave up eating meat early this year. My diet is now restricted to eggs. I won't consume meat only because it is lab grown. |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Due to personal beliefs & reasons, I am a strict vegetarian (no eggs either). I would 100% give lab-grown meat a shot. If it's tasty and no animals are killed, I'll dive deep into it as I'm a big foodie. That said, the problem with Indian restaurants - especially the shady ones - is you don't know who to trust. Many of them will pass off real meat as lab-grown meat. Hence, I will either just eat it at trustworthy restaurants (e.g. Taj, Copper Chimney, McDonalds) or buy it myself for home cooking. Such news really excites me. Now, can someone come out with something similar for eggs? I would really love a lab-developed egg omelette on Sunday! Quote:
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However, most of us switched to broiler by the 90s because it has much tender meat and quick to cook. These days I avoid country chickens as I find them harder to chew. Then there is fighter chicken meat, which is an acquired taste, as they are grown on special diet of rice and ghee and have too much muscle. The chicken breeds vary a lot across states, so it is pointless comparing. My own state has special breeds of heavy weight chickens that weigh 3-5 kgs. But I avoid them while buying and stick to white broiler chicken breed within 1.7Kg only. Last edited by Samurai : 8th December 2020 at 09:59. Reason: typo | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() For a vegeterian like me this is a real conundrum. The main reason for not eating non veg was killing of animals. I was ok with eggs but could not cross that barrier. Now, with lab grown meat, that line has been blurred. When no animal has been killed and it is grown in a lab, the reason to not eat is very weak. Though there will be a mental barrier still when eating , it's going to be a smaller hurdle to cross. Damn, this really puts veggie folks in a fix. Last edited by Vid6639 : 8th December 2020 at 10:06. |
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| ![]() I think it is important to mention that there are two kinds of products in this vegetarian meat category. 1. Stuff like Impossible meat is purely vegetarian with synthetic molecules to match the texture. 2. Stuff that's grown using meat cells in a lab. The kind of meat being reported in the article comes from cells originally harvested from an animal. Hence, it cannot be vegetarian. It is surely synthetic but I don't think even one cell being from an animal can allow it to be vegetarian. Last edited by bblost : 8th December 2020 at 12:06. Reason: Multiple Typos. Please proof read before posting. Thanks. |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() I think you are splitting hair if you start going in this direction. Plants and human have common ancestors, if you go back in the evolutionary tree. Most draw the line at killing/cruelty, which is a sensible line. |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Reminds me of this story. Long read, but worth it in this context Quote:
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| ![]() @GTO & @Vid6639 - regarding your ethical dilemma of lab grown meat being actually "vegetarian" or not, @Cessna182 has explained it perfectly. The only difference between lab grown meat and farm reared meat is that you don't have to kill a fully formed living animal. So it is not a "meat-like" vegetarian substitute, its actually meat. But because no animal is killed, it makes it ethically okay for even vegetarians to consume... I think. Also, if being vegetarians you (like me) eat cheese, that too involves killing of baby calves to procure the rennet. I hope this too moves to a lab grown substitute soon. I think going forward lab grown or cultured meat will become the primary source of cheap and easily accessible protein. There is really no other way to feed the huge population explosion we're heading towards. Real fish & meat will become an expensive fine dining option. To be consumed as a delicacy at a 5 star restaurant. Like caviar perhaps. Last edited by digitalnirvana : 8th December 2020 at 12:16. |
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I think the problem is that battery farmed hens have a very poor quality of life, stacked in cages one on top of the other, covered in poop and unable to move. They resort to pecking themselves which is why their beaks are blunted. Free range eggs are a myth in India. Still, its most definitely better than meat or dairy. | |
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| ![]() I would still be wary to eat as the original cells for the lab grown meat is still from an animal , quick extract from the article on Guardian 'The Singapore Food Agency has given regulatory approval to Eat Just’s “chicken bites”, grown from the cells of a chicken that’s still flapping its wings...'more at https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ltured-protein |
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| ![]() Now we have artificial meat from human feces. What has the world come to? |
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| ![]() If it becomes as good as the chicken we eat, sure. |
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I agree meat grown using animal cells is not as pure as vegetarian meat burgers. I think if they can provide the nutrients that meat provides but with same taste and texture as meat for the people who eat meat, it will take care of our environment. | |
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| ![]() In meat what matters is the texture. Texture and taste differ from which part of the carcass it is harvested from. If the lab created meat is going to feel like sausage or ham, then no. For ex, a shoulder cut is different from a shank. Eating a rib-eye steak is different from eating a sirloin steak. If we are talking about making Indian beef curry, yes, the difference between the cuts are fairly insignificant as we anyway mask most of the taste with our masalas. |
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