Engineered meat, shorter reply (was: Eatting Engineered Meat: Long Reply)

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The manu-meat has been a great exchange of ideas &

opinions.

 

I'd like to second the Long Reply, and futher an idea

offered therein:

 

(1) IF we hold that " animals are people, too " , AND

(2) engineered meat begins with an animal cell, AND

(3) we conclude that it's ok to eat this " meat " ,

 

THEN: wouldn't it be o.k. to start with a human cell,

then, too, for " consumption " ?

 

If that kind of grosses you out, then perhaps it's time for

a rethink. (In other words... Soylent Green!!!)

 

Speaking of, this whole topic does " smack " of Science

Fiction... Imagine that this whole manu[factured]-meat

thing does take off... But, the world *does* turn vegan...

1000 years down the road, we find that we can communicate

[abeit poorly] with animals, and certain species even go on

to win suffrage (oddly, including Cows, who now have

lobbied congress to sell their milk for cheese production,

and the black market for unpasturized milk now exceeded the

underground MSG market)....

 

But, all the while, engineered meat has been produced to

feed the world's poor & the world's richest (with different

additives & GMO's -- the middle classes are still decidedly

vegan, with cheese being slowly reintroduced, unlabeled,

via fast food).... But, recently, a news report on the

liberal underground media outlet Fox-451 has reported that

this bio-mass has evolved into having a consciousness...

 

Oh, the dilemmas we " manufacture " !

 

" food " for thought...

-michael

 

ps: Don't forget that the original article did include the

following:

 

> " It won't appeal to someone who gave up meat

> because they think it's morally wrong to eat

> flesh or someone who doesn't want to eat

> anything unnatural, " Kerry Bennett of the UK

> Vegetarian Society told the Guardian newspaper.

 

 

---- Bamboo TranceGirl offered the following:

> Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:01:31 -0700 (PDT)

> " Bamboo TranceGirl :\) " <bambootrance

> Re:Eatting Engineered Meat: Long Reply

>

> Eating engineered/cloned meat is definitely still a

> carnivorous edifice and though perhaps EVENTUALLY

> decreasing the direct harm to animals it would in

> no way serve to end the cruelty to animals in

> continuing to associate them as a food product

> furthering the recognition of animals to an even lower

> level then already suffered effectively exaggerating

> them as mere exploitable object.

> [ ... ]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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