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I’ve always been curious on the vegan perspective on lab grown meat. I’m sure it’s not a monolith but is there a general consensus?
Opinion:
Chewing on lab grown tissue is not something I'm looking forward to. I don't need it in my life, I'll stay plant based. If it replaces a dead animal I'm fine with it. But I doubt it will. I feel like lab-grown meat is like hydrogen for Big Oil:
A thing that they're working on, it will be great in the future. But until then, we can continue burning oil/eating meat.
I am vegan for the health benefits: avoiding colon cancer, avoiding type 2 diabetes, improved cholesterol , reducing visceral fat, avoiding overeating, longer healthier life, etc.
Not contributing to animal cruelty is a bonus but not my motivation so lab grown meat isn’t going to change the way I eat.
If it becomes efficient enough to reduce greenhouse emissions then that would be the only benefit I would get from it.
Social level opinion: While I hope it is successful in making cruelty free living more accessible, I hate what lab grown meat represents, and I hate the idea that human beings are so self-centered that the only way they would give up meat as if someone else made an exactly perfect replication of it. I also unfortunately do not think it’s going to succeed, because even today if you served somebody a bunch of different burgers made from different animal meats, and in there you also included a beyond burger, I doubt that person could identify which one was vegan, unless they are some kind of meat connoisseur. So why wouldn’t I expect people to just convince themselves that whatever imperfections are going to be in the lab grown meat are a dealbreaker?
Practical personal level opinion: I wouldn’t have a problem with lab grown burgers, hot dogs, and most sausages. To me these are basically just “processed protein tubes and patties”. And if that’s what the party was grilling then i won’t complain. But I also think that if I’m at the grocery store and that’s what I want to eat that week, I’m really just gonna care about the sustainability and the price to quality ratio more than anything. Now if it’s just a cut of meat on the other hand with gristle, connective tissue, a grain, that just skeeves me out. But I wouldn’t say it offends my morals or anything, just seems kind of grotesquely self-indulgent and offputting
I'm not personally interested in eating it. Just not appealing to me (and, I'm deathly allergic to seafood besides, which lab grown fish is still a problem there).
But I'm happy it exists, and hope it is environmentally friendly/cost effective enough to save animals, and improve the environment.
I avoid meat/dairy to help the environment, prevent animal cruelty, and improve my health (specifically cholesterol).
I suspect lab-grown meat helps the environment and prevents animal cruelty, but it’s still really dangerous for me to eat, so I still wouldn’t touch it. Seems like a net positive for the world, though.
I think the general consensus would be: As long as you don't need to keep exploiting animals to get the stuff to make the lab grow meat out of, it is considered vegan.
However, a lot of vegans still say they would not eat it.
This. Many (most? all?) companies currently producing lab-grown flesh do continue to exploit animals in order to produce it, so not vegan, but there's no reason that it couldn't be vegan.
I made watermelon tuna sashimi for a meetup and most of the vegans were repulsed because it was so meaty.
How do you make watermelon meaty?
It comes out and looks just like a raw tuna steak. Cut it into sashimi style slices and put on it on sushi rice with a small wipe of wasabi. If your watermelon was too sweet it'll come through in the end product. It's uncanny in the texture and flavor.
Sounds tasty. I might be too lazy to try it though 😕
It took a bit of work but it did make quite a lot of "tuna". Enough for an sushi entire party with 20 people from only half a melon.
They weren't rude or anything - just they couldn't bring themselves to eat it because it was too much like real tuna in appearance
Ahh fair enough, I don't know enough of the whole story. I take back what I said.