Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?

Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by intopieces on Sunday May 12, 2019 @01:15PM (#19893133)

What is never brought up in the lab grown meat discussion is the potential to mitigate human suffering. Working a fishing boat is hard. Working a poultry plant is hard and psychologically stressful. Lab grown meat could eliminate that for thousands of people.

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Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by GiorgioG on Sunday May 12, 2019 @01:52PM (#19893354)

Lab grown meat could also eliminate jobs for thousands of people. Got any ideas how a 50-something fisherman is supposed to put those lab grown meals on his/her table once their job is gone?

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Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by intopieces on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:37PM (#19893628)

No industry is safe from disruption. Governments need robust training programs and social safety nets for late career individuals in all industries in transition.

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Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by dqybh on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:25PM (#19894329)

Retraining is hard and will become useless when more and more jobs are destroyed. UBI is an example of "For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong". So what do we do?

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Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by BurningFrog on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:46PM (#19893679)

I'm not impressed with academics who think all physical labor is torture.

NOT EVERYONE IS LIKE YOU OR WANT TO BE LIKE YOU!

Sorry for the shouting...

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Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by intopieces on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:58PM (#19893736)

https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/features/W...

“The ILO is keenly aware that people in the fishing sector often face harsh or difficult working conditions: they may spend long periods at sea and are frequently exposed to unpredictable and dangerous conditions. In a number of countries, the fatality rates for persons in the fishing sector are many times greater than the national average, for example higher than those for fire-fighters or police. These rates may exceed 150 to 180 per 100,000 workers, rivalled only by such other hazardous occupations as forestry and coal mining.”

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Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by thrower123 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:47PM (#19895873)

Much like cutting trees for a living, fishing - even of the net hauling and trap wrassling variety - can be very fulfilling and fun for a certain kind of person.

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Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by Can_Not on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:44PM (#19895856)

This wouldn't stop somebody from fishing for fun/sport, unless you're saying it's common that people use industrial fishing equipment for fun.

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Re:Seafood Without the Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers? by BurningFrog on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:07AM (#19896718)

I'm saying some people actually really enjoy physical outdoor work over sitting behind a desk in an office all day.

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