# Vegetarians, would you eat this?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarians-would-you-eat-this/316595>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarians-would-you-eat-this/316595 "2005-08-11T15:45:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cagey\_Drifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@Cagey\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cagey_Drifter)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarians-would-you-eat-this/316595/21 "2005-08-17T18:22:18Z")

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I wouldn’t eat it. Although the ethical aspect of it is the primary reason for my not eating meat, I also don’t support genetic modification and other potentially dangerous laboratory fuckeries… The long-term effects of things like this are unknown.

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**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarians-would-you-eat-this/316595/22 "2005-08-17T19:03:22Z")

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I’m not a vegetarian, but I keep kosher, and this stuff might not be considered meat for kosher purposes. (Pause, insert at least a decade of future rabbinic wrangling on the subject here.) Which means, of course… Cheeseburgers! Kosher Cheeseburgers! I’ve never had a cheeseburger, and don’t really see the great appeal, but I’d love to try one just for the experience of it. Besides, I think that Man-Made Chopmeat’ll probably be a more convincing product than Lab-Steaks.

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**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarians-would-you-eat-this/316595/23 "2005-08-17T21:30:10Z")

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Another vegetarian who says not just no, but hell, no. Test tube meat… sounds like a really great band name, but definitely not food.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vegetarians-would-you-eat-this/316595/24 "2005-08-17T21:46:27Z")

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This technology has potential. Since the … stuff … needs to be worked in order to resemble the real deal, why not attach lumps of it to machinery and make itdo some work while it gets conditioned. Better yet, why not use it to produce prosthetic limbs?

But as for making fake meat as an apetizer to vegetarians? Isn’t that kind of like trying to make a cock that will be appealing to a lesbian? i know a few veggies who’ve made their decision for different reasons, but what seperates lifelong veggies from the ones who give it up after a few years or months is: the long-term veggies just don’t like meat enough to keep it in their lifestyle.

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