POLL: If the taste, texture, etc. of synthetic beef was identical to real beef, would you be willing to switch to eating it exclusively?

Feb 16, 2021
11:08:33am

Sea Chicken Freeloader

*If it was proven to help the environment and not be any more harmful to our health than real beef.

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POLL: If the taste, texture, etc. of synthetic beef was identical to real beef, would you be willing to switch to eating it exclusively?

Sea Chicken Freeloader

2/16/21 11:08am

If no, why not?

Sea Chicken

2/16/21 11:09am

there are some thoughts that herd and pasture animals do a good job to improve

StutterOfTheCougar

2/16/21 11:24am

I like it when people say harvest when they mean kill.

Sea Chicken

2/16/21 11:25am

RE: I like it when people say harvest when they mean kill.

m0resn0w

2/16/21 11:30am

I understand your point. I guess I think of harvest as killing with some kind

StutterOfTheCougar

2/16/21 11:30am

I prefer using the correct words and not pretending they are something else.

Sea Chicken

2/16/21 11:33am

So then use the word slaughter.

fldnstrm

2/16/21 11:36am

That would be accurate too

Sea Chicken

2/16/21 11:42am

I've heard people complain English has too many words that mean the same thing.

Eddie

2/16/21 11:40am

I killed the tomatoes and peppers in my garden to make salsa

fattycoug

2/16/21 11:51pm

I've hiked places that do and places that don't have cattle.

Eddie

2/16/21 11:31am

yes, they seem to do a lot of things to break up and aerate the soil as they

StutterOfTheCougar

2/16/21 11:49am

It would have to be the same price or cheaper.

JuicyJam

2/16/21 11:54am

Same cost? (I don't know what the current cost difference is if any.)

m0resn0w

2/16/21 11:10am

Yes. Same cost or cheaper.

Sea Chicken

2/16/21 11:10am

Well then...

m0resn0w

2/16/21 11:14am

Why not? No downsides in that case as long as it was more energy efficient to produce

BeyondTheMark

2/16/21 11:11am

Well...cows have to die to the stop the methane production.

Eddie

2/16/21 11:13am

If so, of course. But that’s a lot of if’s... some might say that’s impossible.

Salami Karate

2/16/21 11:13am

No for me, too processed and I prefer prime beef when possible

USMCdad

2/16/21 11:13am

For me its just the synthetic part... we aren't meant to eat synthetics.

(Private)

2/16/21 11:21am

You can argue we aren't meant to eat meat either.

Baron

2/16/21 11:23am

My canines and front facing eyes disagree with you... but sure we can argue.

(Private)

2/16/21 11:26am

That argument is clearly wrong

Pretorian

2/16/21 1:44pm

What do you prefer about it?

Eddie

2/16/21 11:22am

The processing involved, I prefer less processed food

USMCdad

2/16/21 11:58am

Fine - but then you are changing the "hypothetical".

Eddie

2/16/21 12:11pm

Reading fail: he said he prefers less processed foods AND ...

(Private)

2/16/21 12:17pm

Are you talking about your own reading fail?

Eddie

2/16/21 12:22pm

Yeah I shouldn’t have expanded on it, just stuck with process

USMCdad

2/16/21 12:47pm

Well that was my original answer, processed food isn’t my ideal

USMCdad

2/16/21 12:44pm

RE: POLL: If the taste, texture, etc. of synthetic beef was identical to real

Byron McNertney

2/16/21 11:13am

If it tastes the same, costs less, and it healthier then sure. I also eat about 30 oz of beef a year so i don't think

shimmy

2/16/21 11:15am

I know vegans who eat more beef than you do

USMCdad

2/16/21 11:18am

I guarantee I eat more eggs and chicken than any vegan you know.

shimmy

2/16/21 11:22am

How much quicker would it give us cancer?

Pretorian

2/16/21 11:20am

At the same rate as real beef.

Sea Chicken

2/16/21 11:24am

So are you asking if there are zero negatives, would you choose to stop killing

Pretorian

2/16/21 1:40pm

That description bothers me. I don't go for engineered, overly processed food.

Ham

2/16/21 11:24am

It's not a description it is a hypothetical.

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