Cultured Meat & Veganism

[LoreD]

For people like me, who are vegan for the sake of animal rights, eating a dead animal is not the problem; killing it is. So I am fine with eating lab-grown meat once it arrives on the shelves in my country, and would still considered myself vegan if I did. I imagine many vegans centered on animal rights would think the same way. However, there are people who are vegan for health reasons, and in their view, eating cultured meat would classify me as non-vegan. Do you believe that eating cultured meat would make an otherwise vegan person non-vegan? And if a great number of vegans decide to eat cultured meat, how are we going to deal with the inevitable confusion surrounding the term "vegan"?

I'm not really interested in lab grown meat because after all this time it doesn't taste right.

The area for growth is in animal food. Even though we have excellent plant based pet foods, I think cultured meat pet foods would reduce the number of animals killed.

 

[FredVegrox]

No meat from animals, directly or indirectly, still being animal flesh, is so good for us. If that is all you have, it can keep you from starving. But there are better things that will not contribute cholesterol and lead to clogging up arteries, or any future cancers. Just eating the healthy things for food that are from plants can be so good without such problems to health like those. And I would not fall for that promotion that animals are not facing any harm that way. Cultures do not go on lasting anyway, fresh sources will continually be needed for any lab meat. Where would they get the animals from? There will be a supply of them kept, still. It would be less harm, maybe, but not ridding harm to animals.

Reasons to really be vegan don't go away.