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submitted 4 days ago by monovergent@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Recently tried an Impossible burger and nuggets and thought that if nobody told me it wasn't meat, I'd have thought the patty was made out of a weird kind of meat, rather than make a connection with the taste and texture of plants. Honestly, I might not complain if that was the only kind of "meat" I could have for the rest of my life.

Well, maybe I'd miss bacon.

I've yet to find the opportunity to try lab-grown meat, but I for sure would like to try it out and don't see much wrong with it as long as it's sustainable, reasonably priced, and doesn't have anything you wouldn't expect in a normal piece of meat.

Also, with imitation and lab-grown options, I'd no longer have to deal with the disgust factor of handling raw meat (esp. the juices) or biting into gristle. I'll happily devour a hot dog, but something about an unexpected bit of cartilage gives me a lingering sense of revulsion.

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[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

In prinxipal fine. In fact I would like to understand the resource intensiveness of the supply chain and health effects. Wonder if vegitarian is better direction for example.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah I don't think I could go vegan but I could maybe go vegetarian, I've already pretty much stopped all red meat, but I do rely on chicken breast quite a bit for my protein and I don't think I could live without eggs and dairy products.

[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

I am thinking on the margin. Might be better to reduce meat rather then replace with synthetic meat.

Once one has done that, compare what is left including synthetic.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

You're probably right, these fake meats are ultra-processed so their CO2 emission might not be all that great and regardless I'm not trying to increase how much processed food I eat...

[-] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago

It is complicated. There is land out there that is not suitable for agriculture on one hand so free range grass fed might not be that bad, but herd animals produce methane too which is a powerful greenhouse gas. Then there is the whole question of eating meat from live animals as well if one cares about that and synthetic might be a way around that. Then of course the whole eco footprint issue. It would be interesting to know more.

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