Re:An ultra-sensitive on-off switch helps axolotls regrow limbs
by myshpa on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:48AM
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> once we as a species transition fully to lab grown meat
I wish... there are many obstacles to implementing that on the scale and timeline needed. I worry we don't have time to wait for that, while we already have plants that could sustain us completely and easily (82% of calories, 63% of proteins).
https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
> it is simply less convenient than eating meat
Tradition, culture, convenience, taste. The only reasons.
> There really is no alternative currently that still satiates people's demands for the taste of meat
It's starting to change. Plant-based alternatives for meat (junk food) are getting better everyday (at least where I live).
In the last years came new bacon and sausages, which my SO refuses to eat because they're "too meat-like".
This is one reason why the rise of meat-like alternatives that nevertheless taste like meat are one of the most subersively impactful ways of turning someone vegan. I suspect once we as a species transition fully to lab grown meat, we will all basically be vegan. But the reason why so few people are vegan these days (out of the overall human population) because it is simply less convenient than eating meat, given that we like the taste of meat. There really is no alternative currently that still satiates people's demands for the taste of meat.