/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>won't eat LAB grown meat because it is 'disgusting' or 'filthy'

Let me present two pieces of meat.

One was grown in a lab, under scientifically controlled conditions. Completely cut off from the outside world, in a sterile environment, with no disease, constantly checked for nutrition. Raised in hospital like conditions.

One was grown in another lab of sorts. Conditions are likely climate controlled, but only because the animal being raised has been bred selectively by humans and now couldn't survive easily outside of this situation. It is surrounded by other animals on every side, many of which have broken bones, or suffer from disease due to the way we have bred them for meat and nothing else. Corpses litter the room but they are hard to distinguish amongst the thousands of animals. It is likely that the animals here have variations of flu viruses, if it is a pig or chicken farm, and these could easily mutate due to Horizontal Gene Transfer between bacterium into viruses deadly to humans. The animals are likely stressed, reducing meat quality. Outside a giant lagoon of shit and manure contaminates the groundwater and pollutes local soil and water. Most of the animals here would die if not for modern air filtration systems and antibiotics, if they are chickens they probably have a Campylobacter infection

Lab grown meat is a great thing. Factory farmed meat is honestly disgusting. I am not a vegan, I will eat meat grown in clean conditions (pasture grass fed beef for example), but if you eat food from factory farms you have no reason to complain about lab grown meat. You are eating from a fucking diseased shitpit everytime you put your fucking chicken/pork/beef from a factory farm in your mouth.