Welp, here come the meat-based plants.
Welp, here come the meat-based plants.
www.wired.com
The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat
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I’d say this is a great step forward. However much I’d like it, there’s no way people will just stop eating meat overnight. Anything that ends up hurting fewer animals for human consumption is a welcome change — whether it is lab-grown meat or enriched vegetable proteins.
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They know that you can eat these plants without the need to genetically alter them to be more like pigs? I really don't understand the appeal for this
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I mean the appeal is yummy? Like you're welcome to go eat the ancestor of apples or stick to seeded watermelons or whatever. You can even prefer the old thing, find the new flavour bad. Hell it's even acceptable to find the whole thing creepy but to not understand seems a deliberate choice.
People enjoy the taste of meat to the extent they are willing to build demonic factories of agony in order to eat world destroying amounts of it. Many people protest taste as a reason to keep on with this holocaust, and while they may be lying perhaps it would move the needle for them. Many vegans or vegetarians also enjoy foodstuffs that mimic flavours or textures found in flesh.
/shrug seems understandable
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I might have been vegan for too long to have that perspective. I never understood the taste side of things with meat, because it was always the spices that made the flavor for me - never the flesh or meat proteins.
IMO, I think the people using taste as a means to justify this holocaust are just trying to cope without thinking too much about the topic. I think they're just buying into propaganda to think that they like (and need) meat. Like, if you give them vegan food that tastes good they like it, but then when they find out it's vegan they no longer like it as it tastes 'weird' and doesn't fit into the meat good narrative.
I don't think I'm deliberating trying to not understand this, and I do appreciate your response. I can see how it might seem I am deliberately being obtuse.
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The lengths people will go to just to avoid learning how to properly cook vegetables...
Eh I'm keen. I didn't stop eating pigs because they taste bad or are unhealthy or whatever. I stopped because it's a moral atrocity.
If someone wants to be like "here is a transgenic soybean that tastes like that thing you like" whether that's crustaceans, pigs, or Apple tart then fuck yeah I'm down to enjoy it.
Plus if it makes it easier for carnists to change more will so that'd be nice.
That word really does paint a picture of the speaker.
Edit: wow! I did not realize I was in c/vegans. The downvotes just solidified that "picture of the vegan speaker".
This article is talking about soy beans.