This...doesn't really have anything to do with those things. This appears to be more about making it so we don't have to clear away tons of forest just to make room for cattle to satisfy the demand for meat products. Though, it could have a potential effect on how cattle are raised since we won't need as many of them as a single donor carcass can produce a lot of the stuff. Theoretically, of course.
The thing holding this back right now is the cost. Sure, they may SAY it'll eventually cost less than the meat I can currently get at the store. As of right now...hell naw.
Clear forests? Your concern is forests?
Theoretically, we were supposed to be able clone perfectly created children from test tubes , but instead we get screwed up animals like Dolly that have tons more defects. Oh and stem cells were also supposed to actually help, but much of the studies were on aborting fetuses until they realized that adult stem cells can have the same effect.
I cannot see this working in any way intended. And would the support of environmentalists or PETA be remotely credible anyways? I don't see these groups protesting how their proponents either do the opposite of their philosophy and help harm the environment [if AGW is real, then why is nobody crying foul about Al Gore and his own oil dealings, let alone the many other stars that do so?] or animals [Don't see them protest the many unsanctioned cruelties of the halal process or the euthanasias given to many healthy abandoned animals of the American Humane Society] or are ineffective. And let's not get into environmentalism's completely extensive red history perpetrated by the likes of Lenin and other Marxists/Leninists.
Therefore, what I mention is relevant in this case because if groups with horrible track records are supporting such technologies that really does not help humanity's current issues with clean and untainted food sources, or are anti-human in nature, why would anyone trust these people with something as important?
Also, if they really want to help animals, maybe they should be less controversial and actually eliminate the radicalization and bent towards violence and illogic that is present in many of these groups.
To me, PETA ,Greenpeace and other likeminded groups seem to me like a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites that want to keep those in third world developing countries as poor and hungry and they want those in the first world. It is hardly to help people or to improve the world's condition. Or much less to actually stave off pollution as some suggest. Kinda like how they banned pesticides and crusade against its use in Africa, even though it kills off mosquitoes with West Nile.
We can say that eating meat is cruel, so be a vegetarian. You'll have to compensate in the diet for protein and the various other nutrients an entire body of an animal can provide. The processes that modern slaughterhouses have are horrifying and it could be argued that all meat processing is bad. However, it can also be argued that it is only bad when the very process extends the pain rather than ending it in a seamless and cruel-free one-go.
It also rails against the reality that most in the Western world are descended from people that stuck closely to a meat and vegetable diet that did not exist with any of the processed mumbo jumbo that is today's food. Let alone other indigenous peoples, that is. Telling people to either forgo meat altogether let alone animal products when human diets have been around those diets for thousands of years is nonsense.
Its rather ironic that PETA would support a policy that would even off a single cow for the future as its pure hypocrisy at the best. If eating animals is cruel, it is cruel NO MATTER the circumstance, period. Do not eat their flesh or support a process that will hardly work as well as previously planned.
Because hey, let's trust scientists in generating food from cells when they can hardly clone real animals without causing them pain. And who's to say it would really take the pain from the situation of the process? We all know that bringing filet mignon to the table takes far more than cloning them in a lab that can totally screw up and make an entire population sick. How do we not know that animals ,even partial ones, are not brought to life to be murdered like some sick science experiment from hell?
We should always remember about pink slime and how THAT was FDA approved, let alone any of the Monsanto nonsense. This is the only way I can realistically imagine this "meat" to actually work. And would you want to eat anything like this?
