Meat Grown in Labs

When I first came across an article earlier this week about meat grown is laboratories, I was pretty intrigued. Who would have thought of this? But really, its a pretty genius idea if you ask me. After reading a second article from Tree Hugger, Lab Grown Meat Six Months Away, I figured this topic deserved its own blog post.

Ethical eating is something I feel strongly about. I don’t eat most meat because I don’t like way our country produces it in factory farms where the animals aren’t treated like animals.

I can see the benefits from lab grown meat:

-No actual animals harmed to produce meat. This is the BIG benefit!

-Less of an environmental impact. Animals need water, food and land, lab meat does not.

The downside:

-Not natural. Most processed foods are technically “created” under the same circumstances, hence, the food isn’t natural, so the meat wouldn’t be either. But most people eating meat anyway don’t care where it comes from, so why would eating meat from a lab matter?

The article doesn’t say anything about how this meat tastes though, except that it tastes like real meat. But is it any good? If meat is created without the use of factory farms and the actual suffering of an animal, would you eat it if your only reason that you don’t eat meat is ethical?

I can see if someone didn’t eat meat for health reasons or just plain dislike that lab meat wouldn’t make a difference. 

As for me, until I can see the actual meat in the store or on my plate, I don’t think I can make a decision, but it sounds better than eating meat produced in a cruel manner which causes the suffering of animals.

Would you eat meat grown in a lab? Why or why not?