Artificial Meat is Comming

[Bring4th_Austin]

It's an interesting idea, but those articles paint a different picture than the one I read on CNN and the one I heard on NPR not too long ago. They both state that with unlimited resources, the technology to create a full serving size more efficiently than conventional livestock production is 10-15 years off. They also said that the meat contains no fat (no taste), so they would have to add it somehow. They also said that the meat itself would be a yellowish color instead of any sort of pink or red, which I think would be a very hard sell to the average consumer.

I'm skeptical but interested to see if they're able to progress it any further. However, this solves very little about our food production system. Conventional crops production is extremely harmful to the environment as well (and, if we're looking at the spiritual aspect, requires the murder of more 2D beings than meat production). For people who choose not to eat meat because of personal ideals, but still wish to eat it, this technology would be good, but I don't see it good for much else. Sustainable systems can easily produce meat and vegetable with nearly no environmental impact...lab-grown meat would help to eliminate conventional livestock production but it definitely wouldn't solve the crux of the problem. I think that the solution to our food production system problems is not in a laboratory, but in the field, where we need to start treating the Earth, the soil, and the animals properly. We also need to educate people on how their dietary choices affect the environment.