A Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming Soon So You Won’t Feel Bad For Eating Animals
Watching videos of cute cows being scratched under their chins on YouTube really makes me feel bad when I grill 10 hamburgers on the grill in the summer. I would give up my eating meat if there were an alternative worthy of replacing it since I need all the meat I can to build muscle. That and all veggie burgers and substitutes tastes like gym mats and newspaper that was kept in a damp basement since JFK was assassinated.
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Thankfully, an actual lab-grown meat could be coming that doesn’t make you want to scream puke in every direction.
“Theoretically from one little piece of meat you can create an unlimited amount,” says Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods, a start-up that aims to put lab-grown fish meat on to the tables of anyone who wants it.
Not only that, another start-up, Just, is culturing a chorizo and a cultured nugget in addition to the foie gras. I don’t even know what any of that means, except I’m positive I want to eat it out of pure curiosity. What Just is really moving towards is making it viable to produce for the masses, which they think that they can introduce to the market to buy off the shelves.
If you think lab-grown meat is kinda gross, just think that you’re eating a dead animal carcass. We forget when we don’t have to interact with our food, but it makes it difficult to eat something once you’ve had it look you in the eyes. Let’s not even go into how bad having millions of cows farting into the atmosphere is after being feed pounds of corn that their stomachs cannot digest (15% of greenhouse gas emissions because you want Taco Bell).
In America, we woof down 26 billion pounds of beer a year. That’s just beef. Imagine every other animal grown to butcher. Now imagine how many of those animals are treated unfairly just so the companies can get their product out faster. Who wants a salad?
Below is a behind-the-scenes look at the movement to grow meat instead of kill the animals that provide it.
(Via Wired)
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