Well, TECHNICALLY we can do it already, or in some years, but people ain't not enough willing...
Just like how integrating into the capitalist system is a necessary evil, so is fish farming to protect our environment. I too can't wait until we can put meat/fish-based protein on people's plates without there ever having to sacrifice the life of a conscious being.
VictimOfReligion@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
Weyland@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
Yeah ... if there is one thing I know for sure it's that any attempt at removing all meat from the Chinese diet is probably going to result in a colour revolution.
VictimOfReligion@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
One day, comrade... One day we will learn and separate traditions from lack of empathy... I can't say anything, maybe, since I live where they torture bulls to death for "sport" and throw goats from a bell tower...
roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
About that. Fish or meat based protein. Does it taste good? Will people eat it? Or will livestock eat it, is that the purpose? Of not, why is it better than existing sources of protein?
Weyland@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
I mean there is lab-grown meat. Once lab-grown meat gets adopted we can slowly turn away from the idea of "meat" being derived from animals and further abstract it. E.g. we could take the genetic code that allows for the creation of an animal's muscles, extract the most basic building blocks that create the texture and nutrients, change it, put that code into bacteria and literally have create a patty/slab of "meat" that has the form and thickness of a tortilla, but the flavour profile of whichever animals you can think of.
roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
That all makes sense.
But in practice people always describe the flavour as being like tortilla too.
And we still need to figure out the environmental impact. We don't know what it is, but it will certainly be far worse than meat.
Why the same form and thickness of tortilla? Is that a technical constraint?
Weyland@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
The tortilla analogy was just to sketch an abstraction to what meat might become.
How would lab-grown meat (one that doesn't make use of a biopsis) have a larger environmental impact? It's literally a cell culture to connect to a nutrient drip.