Current Affairs No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time

[Noisy noise annoys]

Haha, of course not my emotive Friend.

Industrial farming is destroying the planet, not good husbandry, which sequesters carbon and improves soils.

Good husbandry probably accounts for less than 5% of world meat tbh

 

[orchard]

Can't see tears on their anywhere Pete

Yeah, cos that egg white and milk won't be from industrial farms.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Yeah, cos that egg white and milk won't be from industrial farms.

Quorn were awarded the Good Egg award by Compassion in World Farming for ethical sourcing of free-range eggs in the UK. In Europe

 

[orchard]

Good husbandry probably accounts for less than 5% of world meat tbh

Did you just pluck that percentage out of the air? It might be close like, it's not popular in the West as one actually has to farm.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Did you just pluck that percentage out of the air? It might be close like, it's not popular in the West as one actually has to farm.

Erm, the word "probably" suggests I was guessing, the UK are very good, large parts of Asia, USA, Spain, S America etc are not

 

[orchard]

Quorn were awarded the Good Egg award by Compassion in World Farming for ethical sourcing of free-range eggs in the UK. In Europe

Wahey, good for them.


*Almost certainly from a factory.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Wahey, good for them.


*Almost certainly from a factory.

They are free range, so are Macdonalds though

 

[Hickson9]

I agree with you there. Around here lots of people keep hens and cockerels for their own use and in good conditions. Factory farming is disgusting but I fear is here to stay.....

I'm vegetarian but I don't have an issue with a more natural type of pastoral farming, resulting in more expensive, exclusive meat.

I suspect the lab grown meat, when it becomes cheap, may displace factory farming to a degree.

 

[orchard]

Erm, the word "probably" suggests I was guessing, the UK are very good, large parts of Asia, USA, Spain, S America etc are not

Do you mean that the UK is better? I wouldn't say that any mono-species business is good, never mind very good mate.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Do you mean that the UK is better? I wouldn't say that any mono-species business is good, never mind very good mate.

Standard wise, the UK has some of the best meat in the world. It is not too difficult though, countries like Denmark, Germany and Greece have very poor standards by comparison. The Red Tractor mark for British meat is excellent.
Danish bacon is so sad, the way the pigs are kept for life is disgusting, German salami too.

 

[zzr45]

Haha, of course not my emotive Friend.

Industrial farming is destroying the planet, not good husbandry, which sequesters carbon and improves soils.

Was amazing watching something on this the other day. Using Satellites to measure the heat of farmland as an indication of how much carbon it was holding. A lot of farmland being utterly destroyed due to poor land management.

 

[orchard]

Was amazing watching something on this the other day. Using Satellites to measure the heat of farmland as an indication of how much carbon it was holding. A lot of farmland being utterly destroyed due to poor land management.

Yeah, it's shocking. Most of the obvious ones are from divorcing animal husbandry from crop growing, as well as the scale, obviously.

There are really good sustainable alternatives out there that improve the land, but they have to be relatively small scale and are somewhat labour intensive. Additionally, lobbying from large concerns introduce legislation that impedes the small scale operator.

I implore anyone concerned with this, if you don't raise or grow your own stuff, to search out their nearest CSA veg box provider and see what they're up to...

 

[Death]

And tbf, it can't be much more icky than slaughtering hundreds of millions of animals every day

We are scum.

 

[Death]

I think that's when we'll make the biggest dent in the world's meat-eating habits, when the alternatives are significantly cheaper. But I suspect it's not just the cost for you atm if the prices are the same. Meat is delicious like, I do miss it sometimes. But giving it up or cutting back on it is just a really good thing to do for all sorts of reasons beyond price

As you mentioned the morality of it is the biggest factor.. much ahead of anything else including global warming. The earth being very hostile and very hard/impossible to live in is what we deserve.

 

[Blue 1]

We are scum.

Men deserve injustice.
They deserve their cruel priests and evil gods, for we are vile.
No more than a crawling disease on the face of the Earth.
The grave is the only cure for our vileness.