Yes. Another illustration of ideological irrationality.
Just an amusing aside...the pivot of James Melville has been interesting. He came to prominence on Twitter during the UK's Brexit referendum. He was an enthusiastic and very vocal supporter of the Liberal Democrats (Britain's most anti-Brexit party). Then, something changed and he got into various conspiracy theories, adopting many of the wackiest concerns of the right.
I doubt he has even thought about meat, beyond which tweets about it will get the most traction.
It's admittedly depressing that we'll need the equivalent of functionally identical robotic slaves before we do the equivalent of abolishing human slavery, especially when we have 90% slave-identical robots already in the form of Beyond, Impossible, etc.
The other bizarre knee-jerk opposition is to using our knowledge of heritability to produce a better populace.
Thank you for writing this. It's astonishing, as you say, that many people will reject, out of hand, a potential product because, to their minds, it is "unnatural." Meanwhile, they will consume animal products from chickens and other animals who are raised in conditions the equivalent of a cesspool and an unflushed toilet bowl. One thing perhaps more than any other that would change people's minds is if cultivated meat became CHEAPER than slaughterhouse meat. Any technology that prevents sentient individuals from being born into absolute hell for murderburgers and "chicken" and their like is a blessing. -- Karen Davis, PhD, President, United Poultry Concerns
Based on the overwhelmingly strong desire for all things “natural” from the left, I predict opposition to synthetic meat will be much stronger on the left.
See: GMO opposition, opposition to “factory” farming, who shops at Whole Foods
Yes. Another illustration of ideological irrationality.
Just an amusing aside...the pivot of James Melville has been interesting. He came to prominence on Twitter during the UK's Brexit referendum. He was an enthusiastic and very vocal supporter of the Liberal Democrats (Britain's most anti-Brexit party). Then, something changed and he got into various conspiracy theories, adopting many of the wackiest concerns of the right.
I doubt he has even thought about meat, beyond which tweets about it will get the most traction.
It's admittedly depressing that we'll need the equivalent of functionally identical robotic slaves before we do the equivalent of abolishing human slavery, especially when we have 90% slave-identical robots already in the form of Beyond, Impossible, etc.
The other bizarre knee-jerk opposition is to using our knowledge of heritability to produce a better populace.
Thank you for writing this. It's astonishing, as you say, that many people will reject, out of hand, a potential product because, to their minds, it is "unnatural." Meanwhile, they will consume animal products from chickens and other animals who are raised in conditions the equivalent of a cesspool and an unflushed toilet bowl. One thing perhaps more than any other that would change people's minds is if cultivated meat became CHEAPER than slaughterhouse meat. Any technology that prevents sentient individuals from being born into absolute hell for murderburgers and "chicken" and their like is a blessing. -- Karen Davis, PhD, President, United Poultry Concerns
Based on the overwhelmingly strong desire for all things “natural” from the left, I predict opposition to synthetic meat will be much stronger on the left.
See: GMO opposition, opposition to “factory” farming, who shops at Whole Foods