Do you think its a bit stupid to not eat meat if its lab grown?

[TheBlazingVegan]

Ah you need cholesterol to live. Cholesterol is the building blocks for many of your hormones. saturated fat is also essential to your existence. Your heart has close to 35% saturated fat and relies on it in times of stress.

This lab meat concerns me alot. I would never put it in my body for the same reasons I dont put artificial sweeteners or GMO veggies in my body. There is much more to food than what science acting as God knows.


one of the issues with eating meat has to do with the state of the animal when alive. Animals slaughtered have been put through a very negative emotional experience which then you are putting into your body. I don't know if there are many studies on this or not but it impacts my state of mind.I would suggest an increase in aggressive behaviour.
On a more 'scientific' level nature is eons ahead of science when it comes to synergy of micronutrients. Which in science and commercialism is also greatly impacted by the cost to procure.
A great example of this is a piece of broccoli compared to a cement sidewalk. The sidewalk has much more calcium than the piece of broccoli ( sidewalk calcium is the same type most commercial vitamins use) but your body can assimilate the calcium in the broccoli much more effectively. Also the broccoli has many micronutrients which create a synergy to utilize the much smaller dose of calcium. Lab meat isnt going to even be close to having any of the benefits of even real meat. Probably on the same level health wise as GMO foods and processed foods.

 

[TheBlazingVegan]

Also The wording of this question is more stupid than not eating something just because it is made in a lab... to me BECAUSE it is made in a lab is a stupid reason to eat something

 

[Nekodaiden]

Ah you need cholesterol to live. Cholesterol is the building blocks for many of your hormones. saturated fat is also essential to your existence. Your heart has close to 35% saturated fat and relies on it in times of stress.

This is like saying I need red blood cells to live, and there are red blood cells in animal blood. Therefore I need animal blood.

The human body makes it's own and adequate cholesterol from the plant foods that it gets, and it creates it's own saturated fat from the plant based fats that it gets. Not dissimilar to other animals who have adequate cholesterol and saturated fat that their bodies have manufactured in appropriate amounts from the plants that they eat.

No one assumes that a fat cow had to feast on animal flesh for it's fat or it's cholesterol, only humans who are flesh eaters trying to defend their habits make this comparison.

 

[TheBlazingVegan]

No it isnt actually, I never said you needed to get cholesterol and saturated fats from animal sources..... You implied cholesterol and saturated fats are bad , they are not.

 

[Nekodaiden]

No it isnt actually, I never said you needed to get cholesterol and saturated fats from animal sources..... You implied cholesterol and saturated fats are bad , they are not.

Actually, I was responding to the original post about eating meat (lab grown, in this case), so my response includes this context, not an isolated version of it. Nice attempt at a straw man, tho.

 

[gab]

...cholesterol and saturated fats are bad , they are not.

Yes, they are. What you write goes against hundreds of peer-reviewed legit studies.

The lower you can keep the fat intake, the healthier you will be. Whole foods, plant based, low fat is healthiest (i.e. a diet consisting mainly of fatty avocados is not exactly healthy ... certainly healthier than eating animal products, but you can do better than avocados).

 

[Kellyr]

I think meat in and of itself tastes disgusting anymore. After 12 years being vegetarian I've lost my appetite for it and if I happen to get something served to me that was cooked or handled with the the same surface or tools as meat, I taste it immediately and it makes my stomach turn.

I'll never be one of those vegans who feels like I have to find something to taste exactly like meat in order to finally be fulfilled. Hence if I buy a mock meat, I really don't aim for the ones that are designed to taste like real meat. I want to savor veggies for their true flavor, not mask them to turn them into something they're not.

My current exception to that is using black salt to give tofu scrambles an eggy flavor, or expecting vegan cheeses to taste like actual cheese (since I only quit eggs, dairy and honey at the beginning of this year.) Those are flavors I'm long accustomed to so it may take some time for me to finally just stop expecting to find things to replace those particular flavor profiles.

The idea of lab-grown meat honestly makes my skin crawl.

No. It is not my personal responsibility as a vegan to pay for something I don't want and wouldn't want to put in my body for the sake of the world. I make impacts in other ways by making the decision to not give my money to those industries I feel do harm, and continue to support plant-based agriculture.

 

[emily.r]

I will never try it but i think it's a good alternative for meat eaters! Interesting subject

 

[veganDreama]

I wouldn't either. However I would hope that it replaced factory farmed meat.