vegan meat

[Andy]

we should really have a board for discussion of dietary stuff.

I don't remember where I heard the discussion, but I thought it was interesting. It's probably already been discussed here, but:
With the regenerative tissue work that is going on, growing ears on the back of rats and whatnot, would you vegans eat meat that was grown from the cells of an animal, assuming that there was a humane way to harvest the cells and the food product was proven safe? 

It's probably a twofold question: would it solve your aversion to the cruelty aspect of eating meat and (for you long termers)do you think that your pallate would allow it or would you be grossed out?

[joanna]

if there were a way to "make" meat that didn't harm animals in any way (like the way you've described), then HELL YES.

i didn't stop eating meat because i didn't like the taste of meat.

[Bryan]

I'm not a vegan or even a full-fledged vegetarian, but NO. That shit has no interest for me. I'd much rather eat a lot less meat or none at all. Lab-grown meat? Eccch.

My dietary choices are based on environmentalism and serious misgivings about factory farming. The answer for me is to buy what little meat I eat from trustworthy, small-scale farmers.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

same here. 

i love meat, and dare i say, i miss it- but i became vegetarian to get healthy.  i dont drink soda, or juice from concentrate, fast food, blah blah blah...i'd rather eat a cow raised on pure feed, no hormones, et al. before i ate lab meat.  egh, so weird.

lab meat=creepopedia

[Bryan]

Off-topic, but my own mention of small-scale farmers above reminded me: today's the first day for this season's weekly veggie box! I'm picking it up in about an hour. Hoo boy, I'm glad to be getting good vegetables again...

[joanna]

today's the first day for this season's weekly veggie box! I'm picking it up in about an hour. Hoo boy, I'm glad to be getting good vegetables again...

that's so awesome. i get a weekly produce box year-round and i was so happy when it stopped being potatoes, beets, onions, kale, and carrots every week. not that i don't love all of those but after 4 months of nothing but...

[jed]

lab meat=creepopedia

Yes!

[Sploops]

I'd sooner eat vegi-squid.

[Julie]

I'm not a vegan or even a full-fledged vegetarian, but NO. That shit has no interest for me. I'd much rather eat a lot less meat or none at all. Lab-grown meat? Eccch.

My dietary choices are based on environmentalism and serious misgivings about factory farming. The answer for me is to buy what little meat I eat from trustworthy, small-scale farmers.

Me too! The way meat is raised is disgusting. We don't need to eat very much of it anyway.

[Tim K in DC]

I used some of the Boca Italian (soy-based) sausages instead of regular pork sausages in the spinach tortellini dish I cooked for me and my girlfriend for dinner last night, and it was good and I didn't feel like I was missing anything. I eat meat and seafood and don't have any plans of stopping outright, but as I've gotten older I've found that there are fewer and fewer meat products that I can tolerate, and I've found the vegetarian alternatives to add some good balance to how I feel from what I eat. I'm done with fast food, and cold cuts make me feel like garbage, so I've stopped eating them. When I do eat meat I tend to stick to clean stuff I'm preparing on my own or reputable, quality restaurants (which, in terms of the latter, translates as follows: a burger from R.F. O'Sullivan's in Cambridge = quality; a dodgy chicken sandwich from my employer's kitchen = I am never making that mistake again). 

[pupscout]

lab meat=creepopedia

that's for sure.

even though i liked the taste of meat, it has stopped being an object of desire for me. i think the mistake a lot of vegetarians make is letting meat become this huge desirable thing hanging over you. I didn't want to give up meat and dairy for a long time because i made the taste and luxury become a huge weight on my shoulders, but the more i ate it with a guilty conscience, the less pleasure i gained from actually consuming it. Now, I don't think I could eat meat even if it didn't cause an animal harm (besides the fact lab meat seems creepy and gross)

[Sploops]

I don't know about my fellow vegans but I don't really have much of a problem with eating clams, scallops, or mussels.  They're basically a step above vegetables (no brain or central nervous system.)  Yet I don't eat them because, well, they're gross.  I would have the same policy with humanely grown "lab meat."

[Denim Gremlin]

I don't know about my fellow vegans but I don't really have much of a problem with eating clams, scallops, or mussels.  They're basically a step above vegetables (no brain or central nervous system.)  Yet I don't eat them because, well, they're gross.  I would have the same policy with humanely grown "lab meat."

I can agree with you about clams and shit. I don't eat that kind of stuff simply because it doesn't fit into how I define being vegan and yeah, gross. 

[Sarah]

Mmmm, clams, scallops, and mussels.

(Sorry.)

[Phantom Hugger]

this is as appropriate a thread as any to share this article.

Good article from a quality magazine...I sez

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/05/carnivores_like_us.php?page=2