Let's get into the meat
If you regularly check the Nomadlife Homepage like I do, you probably would've read the post about in vitro meat already. Since I'm not a biochemist I can't explain any technical detail, but to summarize, in vitro meat is an idea to artificially grow muscle tissue of livestock (e.g. chicken, beef, etc.) so that meat for food can be obtained and manufactured without killing lives.
I'm not a vegetarian. Animal slaughtering has been done even before the creation of humankind for survival. But today eating meat is more convenient than ever, because you don't have to do the actual "processing," therefore we seem to ignore the value of life when we eat them. It is not my role to make you feel guilty for eating meat so I'll leave it to websites like Go Vegetarian and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). My point is, maybe there are enough reasons to at least cut our meat consumption.
So, back to the in-vitro meat idea. PETA is rewarding the first scientist $1 million if he/she succeeds to artificially create chicken meat that is not distinguishable from the real meat, manufacture it in large-enough quantity to be sold commercially, and sell it competitively in the market by June 30, 2012. I really do support this idea...there must be concerns regarding safety and so on, but if meat can be obtained without killing animals, and other problems that come with it, world would be a better place.
*This picture was shamelessly taken from nomadlife.org blog post*
Yesterday I went to a police station in Galati with Roxana's help, not because I did anything wrong, but to register myself for my stay, because my visa for staying in Romania expires tomorrow. My plan is to go there again before I leave here to obtain an exit permit so that I can leave the country without a problem. Let's hope that it'll all work out.
I'm not a vegetarian. Animal slaughtering has been done even before the creation of humankind for survival. But today eating meat is more convenient than ever, because you don't have to do the actual "processing," therefore we seem to ignore the value of life when we eat them. It is not my role to make you feel guilty for eating meat so I'll leave it to websites like Go Vegetarian and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). My point is, maybe there are enough reasons to at least cut our meat consumption.
So, back to the in-vitro meat idea. PETA is rewarding the first scientist $1 million if he/she succeeds to artificially create chicken meat that is not distinguishable from the real meat, manufacture it in large-enough quantity to be sold commercially, and sell it competitively in the market by June 30, 2012. I really do support this idea...there must be concerns regarding safety and so on, but if meat can be obtained without killing animals, and other problems that come with it, world would be a better place.
*This picture was shamelessly taken from nomadlife.org blog post*
Yesterday I went to a police station in Galati with Roxana's help, not because I did anything wrong, but to register myself for my stay, because my visa for staying in Romania expires tomorrow. My plan is to go there again before I leave here to obtain an exit permit so that I can leave the country without a problem. Let's hope that it'll all work out.
posted by Masato at
9:23 AM
6 Comments:
Clones are living things! Just because it's a bastard of science doesn't mean it's alright to kill it!
If God didn't want us to eat animals, then why did he make them so delicious?
>Ryan
Sorry for not making this clear. The point of in vitro meat is to grow "muscle tissue" (the part we love to eat), NOT the animal itself. To be very very simple, it's like "OK, if I mix this protein and that vitamin and this magical elixir and mix them in a boiling pot over fire, it will soon become a pot of chicken meat. Like jelly." But you are right, killing clone is just as bad as killing natural-born.
And again I agree, God made things too complicated to understand for normal people like us. He gave us taste buds to appreciate certain things but also "morals" to reject them. I bet he wasn't an engineer.
oh oh? What has Masato gotten a taste for that "morals" say is wrong O.o? Stay away from dirty women, Masato!
:-D
Stay away from dirty women, eh? I think that goes for both of us, my friend.
I'm not the one tasting things that morality states I should not!! Sounds like you got kinky taste buds.
I just heard about the experimentation with in vitro meat and I don’t know exactly how I feel about it. On the one hand it would free up much needed arable land used for grazing, but on the other hand we don’t know anything about the energy costs for producing this stuff. You might be interested in this article titled “What is your dinner doing to the climate” posted on a climate energy news blog: http://climateemergencynews.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-is-your-dinner-doing-to-climate.html It talks about in vitro meat and other factors associated with meat consumption. I agree that reducing how much meat we eat will be beneficial to our health and the environment. I actually work for a group called Meatless Monday and we advocate cutting back on meat just 15% (one day out of 7) to reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer. You also might be interested in this article: www.meatlessmonday.com/dyk_environment.
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