Hi there,
I was just chatting with my vegan sister tonight, when she mentioned she's writing a book about cell-based meat! She asked me about my thoughts and input. Instantly, I was reminded of Eco Lifestyle's meat wall!
I shared this with her. She enjoyed it. (She doesn't play The Sims). But it makes me wonder... There is apparently a LOT of
research and
development already put into lab-grown, cultured meat. She asked me,
"As a meat eater, would you try it?" And I... didn't know what to say, right away. I need some thought.
She shared with me some websites, because she's VERY passionate about veganism and animals' rights —
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https://www.cellag.org/
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https://www.gfi.org/
This post isn't about her... (but she is my vessel to veganism.) This post is about the Meat Wall, and The Sims' message behind it. So, in all my Googling... all I can find is "hOw tO gEt thE MeAt WaLL." But not,
"why we introduced a meat wall."
So,
where is the Sims' story behind the Meat Wall? Why are solar power and recycling so popular, and yet cell-based meat isn't as well known? How does it fit in? I guess the broader questions is:
Why did The Sims make "Eco Lifestyle?" But also...
Why a meat wall?
Would you eat lab-grown meat? Grown outside, on a meat wall?
-sketches
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But apparently it's supposed to be lab grown meat. I think plant based meat would have been more fitting, they could have added soy plants and given you the option to make plant based meat of them.
I would maybe eat lab grown meat, if it was grown in a lab, not outside. But I would prefer plant based meat which also seems to be more common.
As for the meat wall.. Well it seems kinda obvious to me: animal cruelty aside, the meat industry is the single largest contributing factor to global warming? Eco is the theme? Goes hand in hand..
Yes, blame it on the cows and meat industry. But no one is banning beans.
Most soy bean production is for feeding livestock, so it’s actually part of the meat industry.
From a vegetarian standpoint I've never understood the obsession with perfectly replicating meat anyways. I've seen some vegan burgers that replicate blood and "bleed" and it just grosses me out, why would you want to replicate that? I only like fake meat if you can tell it's not real meat. Lab grown meat is especially weird but I suppose the idea behind it is that it's environmentally friendly and doesn't require people changing their entire diet so it's good for that. Not for me though.
I was actually referring to regular beans, not soy beans. But still there's a lot of soy in everything nowadays. Also, people managed food better when it wasn't so easily available and didn't eat meat with almost every meal. Maybe instead of lab grown meat, they should just eat less regular meat, like their grandparents used to do.
Eh. My only problem with meat is the environmental aspect. Grown meat is the ideal solution.
I don't think anyone properly assessed the effect industrially lab grown meat can possibly have on the environment and general health of the population.
I chose it not because oohhh I get non veggie meat and that's the future!.. but because it's gross looking and funny.. and I like that.
Wow a fellow vegetarian 😃😃
I feel the same way. I always believed the fake replica of meat was made for meat eaters who want to become vegetarian but have a hard time adjusting. I know one like that. They try to get something as close to meat as possible.
I was raised vegetarian so anything that even looks like or tries to replicate meat does not sit well with me.
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Large scale, or even small scale, is just theoretical right now. But for your points... it's all about where the energy is coming from. Just like with electric cars for example: No matter if you are 100% electrical, if you use a coal plant to charge your car it is actually worse for the environment than a modern combustion engine. Same with this.
As for the health of the population? Not sure if I see the problem? I mean any health problems are self-inflicted and is more a matter of taxation and above all education. The BIG reason food-related diseases go up in "certain countries" is because of an economic policy that makes unhealthy fast food CHEAPER than healthy food.
Well, I wouldn't want to see industrial scale lab grown meat in the supermarket, because organic and hormone free meat would become prohibitively expensive for most of the population if not entirely unheard of.
Hormones has nothing to do with this. That too has to do with national legislation. I live in a part of the world where added hormone in meat is virtually unheard of, period, since it is illegal.
But that is another discussion. I see no moral problems with meat as such, so I am not vegan and will never be. Let's stop this discussion there.
It's good to hear that animals are not fed additional hormones in your part of the world. But lab grown meat needs hormones to grow.