He doesn't seem to understand that everything on this planet has its purpose and that of animals is, that it is to be consumed by us. I do not condone the current ways of killing animals en masse but certainly artificial meat isn't the answer either? We are dealing with a lot of unnatural food these days and no matter what the motivations are, it is hurting humanity.
You have got to be trolling. You just said that the purpose of animals are to be eaten. Okay, maybe some animals and maybe our society condones meat-eating. But you cannot possibly allow this as absolute reality. Some very productive, peaceful, societies (pre-Modern China) were almost completely vegetarian. Vegatarianism is a possibility.
Now, regarding artificial meat. It's weird. But people will not hangs their habits right now. It is possible, but it won't happen right now. Maybe the best startup or business idea that could ever exist is helping people to change. But the thing is, it is hard to change. And as many teachers and successful people say, you can only lead people to a door, you can't make them open it.
But with this artificial meat. So we can't make people change. We can't fight highly unethical current practice by charging the same or lower than them. We maybe can change legislation, but that is also very hard because these industries are very powerful.
So we can't change what people eat, can't convince them based on price, and can't change the way animals are treated.
But we can change the way the product is produced that we are already eating en-masse. And it might be weird. But who knows, it's a gamble. But artificial meat could work.
I would rather have vegatarianism as an absolute reality than one where artificial meat is the standard. In fact, I will become a vegetarian if the latter applies.
If everyone had switched to vegetarianism at the same time, we probably wouldn't be in a situation where scientists are trying to develop artificial meat. In fact, I would suggest that if you want to do your part to prevent this from becoming a reality you should go ahead and switch to vegetarianism right now :D If everyone does it, it might not be viewed as cost-effective to continue this research.
You're right about the 'unnatural food'. It's sick, disgusting, and just plain mad science trying to play God with peoples lives.
How on earth do people think with all the variables relating to individuals and environment, finding 'causation' or 'safety' in something like 50 year cancer and heart attack risk studies is remotely plausible? What about reproductive issues? How many generations are needed to 'prove' something is 'safe'?
Nutritional science is a bunch of quackery topped only by the pretend science 'economics'. Sure, find some correlation dots, or simply say 'it hasn't been proven UNSAFE' when you're peddling your chemicals via the FDA.
We'd all be a lot better if we followed the oath of 'First, Do No Harm'.
