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Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp
Maybe we can take the beef from real cattle, and then patch them up with the lab grown tissue. No more slaughterhouses!  |
But that is what the whole story is about!? They used stem cells from a living cow and let them grew in the lab.
I am quite certain that they will go all the way, and that it will become affordable. Just give it time.
Any ecological or economical side-effects currently are hard to predict precisely. Just one thing is certain: man is an omnivore, not a pure carnivore or vegetarian. Our jaw and teeth and our digestion system - especially the part that we lack, compared to our cousins in the world of big apes! - tell that story quite clearly, even if many vegetarians actively close their eyes before that, for ethical concerns. The ethical argument - not bringing suffering to animals - I can understand and accept. The biological one, I refuse to take serious anymore (I did in the past, but information input forced me to correct my former views from long time ago).