Re:Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid
by samatman on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:41PM
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This formula uses fish gelatin, which rules it out for strict vegans or even vegetarians.
But if we set that aside, I'm sure opinions will differ. This is a single-celled organism we're talking about here, to me (was vegetarian, then vegan, now neither) that's more like yeast, and the fact that it's in the animal kingdom is a technicality. None of these cells are neural tissue so it's incapable of suffering in any way we would recognize.
But I would expect the more crunchy-granola school of vegans to find the idea horrifying and refuse to eat it.
But if we set that aside, I'm sure opinions will differ. This is a single-celled organism we're talking about here, to me (was vegetarian, then vegan, now neither) that's more like yeast, and the fact that it's in the animal kingdom is a technicality. None of these cells are neural tissue so it's incapable of suffering in any way we would recognize.
But I would expect the more crunchy-granola school of vegans to find the idea horrifying and refuse to eat it.