Thread: Vegetarian?
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Old 06-26-2009, 01:10 PM   #276
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Originally Posted by nekokami View Post
Question: if meat could be grown as cellular tissue in vitro, so that it could be harvested without killing any animals, how many of you who identify as vegetarians would have an ethical problem with eating it? (Let's assume, for the moment, that this could be done in a way that produced "meat" that really was just as healthy and tasted the same as the real thing.)
I wouldn't touch it. I value LIFE! Do I eat meat? Yes. I value it's nutrition. I value it's worth to sustain me and give me the things I need to stay healthy and survive.

I would not trust anything man made to supply the kind of nutrients for my body to metabolize. I can't even say that our bodies could successfully process the stuff. It might taste ok. Actually, I'm sure they can give this Mystery Meat any possible taste. Chicken, snake, squirrel, squid, shark, duck, whatever.

Still. Give me the cooked flesh from a living animal anyday.
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