Would you eat in vitro meat? Why or why not?

Yeah, I don’t see why not
As long as no one tampers with it

That would be a big “No!”

<—-All the way in vivo meat . . .

certainly.

No. I’m struggling with my current meat consumption as it is. Scary blech.

I’d consider it, but I don’t even really like meat to begin with.

Absolutely.

In fact, a PeTA person came out on donated money for this cause. It’s an excellent substitute for real meat.

One day, when we’ve killed all other livestock, cultured meat will be the only thing we have left. I say this is a good advancement.

I don’t eat real meat, so no.

@Grisaille And insects!

It has to taste good…

According to my understanding, some veal is “butchered” before it is born, so I not only would, I do.

Not knowingly. I don’t know that I have a compelling reason. I just find it creepy and unnatural.

sure, meat is meat. If it is grown in a lab, I just hope it is aged properly and has some real juicy flavor. Nothing worse than bland meat, in vitro or otherwise.

but then, what would the animal activists have to complain about, all that would be left for them is to shun those people that step on spiders? =)

As @evelyns_pet_zebra says, sure, meat is meat.

However, they better get it to be appropriately marbled as well as aged. And they better not add any preservatives, artificial or natural colors, or extra flavoring to it. It needs to taste like meat or I will feed it to the dogs (if they’ll have it).

I see no ethical reason not to, just no desire to. I’ve been veg so long the thought of eating flesh is repulsive to me.

Assuming it wasn’t dangerous (You know, major links to diabetes or aids or something) and tasted good, sure.

didn’t read the whole wikipedia article on it, but it sounds ethically okay from your description.
i don’t know if i’d eat it though. i’ve been a vegetarian for years, and i think i’d just feel weird about it. but i don’t know, maybe. i kind of miss hot wings… (;

I wouldn’t, no special reason it’s just that I didn’t even like meat to begin with.
I’ll stay a veggie forever :)

I’d be squeamish about it at first, but I would try to get over it. It seems far more ethical than killing a living, breathing animal just to eat it.

Yes, in order to cause less suffering than I do by eating animal meat.

Yes, if this could produce meat in ways that would be less environmentally destructive.

@AstroChuck Wouldn’t this render vegetarian objections to killing animals moot?

No. Killing animals is never moot.

@AstroChuck but eating laboratory meat has nothing to do with killing animals.

I have no problem with that. You asked if killing animals would be moot to vegetarians. I said no.

@YARNLADY by “this” I meant lab produced meat, which I understand to be the point of this question

@YARNLADY- I thought I made my feelings clear when I wrote, “I see no ethical reason not to, just no desire to. I’ve been veg so long the thought of eating flesh is repulsive to me.”

And I assume you meant @AstroChuck.

@AstroChuck haha, yes I didn’t reply to myself. I thought flesh referred to once living animals, and the “meat” produced in the laboratory is not “flesh” but merely cells that have grouped together in the form of meat.

One thing to consider, if you are into animal welfare at all, is if we all start eating meat made in laboratories why would anyone keep on raising cows and pigs? What do you think a farmer would do with the existing cows and pigs if there was no longer a market for their meat?

I know I wouldn’t like to be one of those animals.

I don’t think people would all, all of a sudden, stop buying real meat. I think it would be gradual. You’d see farmers just raising fewer and fewer. Not all of a sudden killing off their entire stock and throwing it in a ditch.

@Darwin…and what would happen to the animals if they were still being farmed for meat? They would still be slaughtered. If the animal meat industry was shutting down they would just stop inseminating the cows and let the remaining ones grow big enough to eat.

Saying we shouldn’t stop slaughtering animals because if we did we would have to slaughter a few more animals is silly.