Re:Beyond Meat: Scaling ethical consumerism
by throwaway20148 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:49PM
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> Long-term I believe humanity should phase out killing animals anyway (via either clean/lab-grown meat or future iterations of plant-based meat)
This inclusive of hunting and (recreational) fishing? If so how do we do animal population and habitat management?
I mean, in an ideal world no one would ever die or be unhappy, but I won't pretend to be an expert on all the legitimate reasons that we kill things.
I should have phrased that as phasing out specifically killing animals for food. I fish myself, and I'm not advocating for any kind of drastic short-term change; over the long term, it's conceivable to me that use cases like recreational fishing could be addressed with AI robot fish and/or highly immersive VR/AR.
tl;dr:
* It's potentially safer than meat during the pandemic
* I support any advancements that may enable humanity to phase out killing animals over the long term, such as clean meat (lab-grown meat) and plant-based meat
* It's one of a very small number of high-quality (high-PDCAAS and low-carbohydrate) protein sources that I'm aware of
* Enjoyment-wise, it's a close enough substitute for my taste
* I'm somewhat concerned about it being a heavily processed food as well as reportedly having its pea protein isolate sourced from China, and I wish they would reduce (or eliminate) the canola oil in favor of more coconut oil, but afaict there's nothing obviously terrible in it