Honestly, I just want lab-grown meat for pet food.
I am aware both that evidence suggests that dogs can survive on plant-based diets and that there exists plant-based foods for cats which are supplemented with microbially sourced taurine and other nutrients that are essential to cats but which are not naturally found in plants. However, there is less data than I’d like confirming that dogs can live and thrive their whole lives on a plant-based diet than I’d like + it seems like the difficulty curve is higher for nutritionally planning and maintaining a plant-based diet for a dog than a human, and cats frequently turn their nose up at nutritionally complete but often unpalatable vegan cat foods and are known to just refuse to eat until they starve if they don’t like their food. Lab-grown meat would offer an ethical alternative with much fewer concerns for those with companion cats and dogs.
Also, some people have like twenty allergies, health conditions and digestive issues that make a sustained vegan diet at best very difficult. Lab-grown meat would be good for them, too.
In general, though, I do question whether our culture is ever going to get to a point where lab-grown meat gains a viable market share, even though it would be better for both animals and the planet.
There is no possible reality where you can lab grow meat more efficiently or more humanely than mother nature can.
It will not be more nutritious. On the contrary I guarantee you it will be more cancerous.
There is absolutely no good that can come from trying to subterfuge mother nature into trying to make something that out of a fucking pool or vat of a recipe designed by the rotting brains of human fucking vermin.
I don’t have any companion animals, in fact. If I ever get any, it will probably not be a cat or dog, for this exact reason.
Cats and dogs are invasive species in many places, and cats in particular can absolutely devastate local songbirds and native rodent populations. For this reason, letting a cat or dog hunt freely is usually uhhhh bad.
Honestly, I just want lab-grown meat for pet food.
I am aware both that evidence suggests that dogs can survive on plant-based diets and that there exists plant-based foods for cats which are supplemented with microbially sourced taurine and other nutrients that are essential to cats but which are not naturally found in plants. However, there is less data than I’d like confirming that dogs can live and thrive their whole lives on a plant-based diet than I’d like + it seems like the difficulty curve is higher for nutritionally planning and maintaining a plant-based diet for a dog than a human, and cats frequently turn their nose up at nutritionally complete but often unpalatable vegan cat foods and are known to just refuse to eat until they starve if they don’t like their food. Lab-grown meat would offer an ethical alternative with much fewer concerns for those with companion cats and dogs.
Also, some people have like twenty allergies, health conditions and digestive issues that make a sustained vegan diet at best very difficult. Lab-grown meat would be good for them, too.
In general, though, I do question whether our culture is ever going to get to a point where lab-grown meat gains a viable market share, even though it would be better for both animals and the planet.
There is no possible reality where you can lab grow meat more efficiently or more humanely than mother nature can.
It will not be more nutritious. On the contrary I guarantee you it will be more cancerous.
There is absolutely no good that can come from trying to subterfuge mother nature into trying to make something that out of a fucking pool or vat of a recipe designed by the rotting brains of human fucking vermin.
“Data taken from the University of My Brown Balls”
… what.
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Wait, why are bird populations collapsing?
cats and rats,mice are the biggest threat to birds, followed habitat destruction.
Why the focus on birds?
Populations of everything are collapsing.
Can you read?
Ironic
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