Would you eat steak if it had been grown in a petri dish?

When meat is not murder

Would you eat steak if it had been grown in a petri dish?

Ian Sample, science correspondent
Saturday August 13, 2005
The Guardian

It is the ultimate conundrum for vegetarians who think that meat is murder: a revolution in processed food that will see fresh meat grown from animal cells without a single cow, sheep or pig being killed. Researchers have published details in a biotechnology journal describing a new technique which they hailed as the answer to the world's food shortage. Lumps of meat would be cultured in laboratory vats rather than carved from livestock reared on a farm.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,1548451,00.html

A very tempting idea... i think i would . I would imagine it would throw up other personal dilemas within myself [hypocrisy/selling out etc].. but i dunno i would consider it.

 

Easy question for me. Meat just doesn't really appeal to me anymore, so I don't have any desire to eat it - wherever it came from. Plus, the idea of eating anything grown in a vat..... well, I'm not even keen on the idea of quorn!

 

Same here

Though actually I like quorn.

The concept just totally creeps me out.

 

Yeah.. to be honest meat does not really appeal to me either anymore. What may sway it is the nutrional value.. as my current diet is poor. I am lazy in that department..

I also took a look at that huge picture http://digital.guardian.co.uk/ and a few old feelings came back :& ..

I think i would have to really seriously think about it..

I thought the fact that it would grown in a vat might be a problem for some people..

Do you think it is a better solution that the butcheing of animals on a vast scale ?.

 

Even if no animals had to suffer and die for it I now have lost all taste for meat. Not to mention that it's so high in saturated fat and other crap... eww... I think I'll stick to my veggies and tofu.

 

i heard about that somewhere.....
interesting~ but i'd never eat meat even if there was no cruelty involved. animal flesh isnt something i find appealing.

 

They could monitor it's nutrional value..

 

To me, vegetarianism is not only about not eating meat, it's also about not eating too much processed food, to know what's in my food, not only looking for animal derived ingredients, but also to avoid flavour enhancers, preservatives and other crap that just doesn't have to be there. So meat that came out of the lab, is the peak of processed food for me... so no thanx....
Also, there are people, that are vegetarians not only to avoid animal suffering, but for health reasons, and that would exclude lab-meat, at least for greater amounts. I mean, would lab-meat be the same as meat, without all the fat? Woud it serously be an alternative? Or just a wannabe healthier alternative like lowfat products? (cuz they taste like crap....)

 

I can't see me eating it either. But to be honest, I don't think I would even if I wanted to -- I'll bet dollars to donuts it'll be that expensive when it hits the shelves, it'll blow your mind!

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Undoubtedly. I'm just dubious about the science behind it, and about the need to eat so much meat in the first place.

 

I AGREE 100%

its not just about avoiding meat, its about living a healthier, more natural life style---growing a steak in a petri dish, doesnt constitute as healthy or natural in my opinion.

i dont trust much of anything that isn't directly provided by nature itself.

 

no,, the " ultimate conundrum for vegetarians " is tryin to be so blind to there elationship with mother earth that they fail to see all things on this rock are alive,, and murder is murder an harvest is harvest..

damn them lost celtic vegans must be rollin in there beds with nightmares..

 

i agree with dreamerspirit

 

thats retarded. its still made of animal cells. no matter how its worded, its still meat.

 

That's too creepy. Even if I didn't object to it morally, I couldn't really get around the 'wrongness' and amont of tampering with nature that would have occurred just for me to eat an 'unkilled' steak. Plus I've never really liked steak.

 

Interesting story.

But I wouldn't eat it because I not only abstain from meat for ethical reasons, but also for health reasons. I'm assuming that the meat in the petri dish would contain saturated fat and cholesterol.

Also, I would be concerned that the genetic modifying they use while creating this would probably make it like a tumor.

So, I wouldn't be actively against it, but I wouldn't be the first in line to try it either.

 

seems somehow hypocrtitcal to me, im not exactly sure why it feels that way, but it does

 

Well I don't think I would eat it. But I bet a lot of meat eaters would if it were healthier, cheaper and readily availiable. Not everybody is going to change their ways. Wouldn't it be better to grow meat than killing lot of animals to get it?

 

Blackie- That's highly improbable, as petri dishes are not alive.

 

That sounds incredibly disgusting and creepy...what else is meat but dead cells and coagulated tissues? We don't need cows growing off of walls, either

or petri dishes