It depends. Is the stick harvested in a humane and environmentally sensitive manner?
Wear? WEAR?! I’m an idiot.
Naturally, the sticks would have to come from baby seals. I don’t see any other way.
Or city chicken, for that matter?
(Personally though, I’m not really a fan of the latter. Corn dogs, on the other hand…)
That’s what I’ve always heard. I don’t recall the exact numbers, but it’s horribly inefficient; something like ten pounds of grass to make one pound of cow. Meat growth in a vat could be powered by, say, nuclear or geothermal energy and bypass all that.
As an enthusiastic meat eater, I’d choose vat grown meat if I could. By preference I’d prefer all my food to be made in a factory. As for vegetarians, that of course depends on their motive; it’ll be fun to watch certain of the more obnoxious ones try to rationalize why eating plants is still morally superior.
Mmm. Baby seal sticks. For that, I’d gladly give up my veganism.
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I will not eat
Fake eggs and ham
I will not
Eat them
Spam-I-am
What if it were grown
on a rope?
Meat-on-a-rope!
you know,
like soap?
Would not
Eat meat
On a rope
I won’t eat
“grown” meat
Nope
Nope
NOPE!
But could you cope
with meat-less meat?
A soy-infused
Rubbery treat?
I will not eat
meat-less meat
It could n’er
Be meatless
Enough to eat
I will not eat meat
From a vat
I will not eat meat
made like that
I shall not eat
meat on a stick
I shall not eat it
Ick
Ick
ICK!
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(…and so on and so forth---- BTW I’m not even a vegetarian— well… sort of sometimes… when I do eat meat I only eat beef–sometimes some pork, NEVER seafood, turkey or chicken. Yuck!)
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Thats very clever. Of course I must point out, that in the “Green eggs and ham” version, he eventually tried them and found they were quite tasty.
Who’s to say it’s “meat”? Call it beef-flavored spinach and everybody will be happy.
Which always disturbed me, even as a kid.
< eats green meat and eggs >
< dies gruesomely >
See, I’m fascinated by disembodied eyeballs. I’d grow them if I could. I see meat machines as fundamentally no different from iron machines or silicon machines, just more complicated and with all of the mechanical detail at the molecular level as opposed to the wrench-and-screwdriver level.
Yer favorite Brain-Inna-Jar,
August “Nanoscale” Derleth
I’ve heard the figure that every calorie of beef takes 16 calories of plant food (assuming the cows are eating things that humans can too).
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the way vat-meat production would work, but wouldn’t the growing cells need some sort of glucose to grow on? Our bodies (and I assumed cow bodies) grow by taking sugar, starch, fat, etc and turning it into energy. We aren’t able to grow using electricity. Is there a way the cells would grow using just electricity? Or would vat meat require loads of sugar or some other substance, which we would still need to grow?