Link: http://science.time.com/2013/08/05/meet-schmeat-say-hello-to-the-stem-cell-hamburger/
Some vegetarians object to meat for the reason of killing the animal. If there was a way to fix that maybe they could eat meat. Scientists are in fact working on a way to produce meat with out killing animals. This meat is made from stem-cells grown in labs with proteins and amino acids. The cost of producing meat from animals is a lot more than we think, the costs of land for the animals, food for the animals, land to grow the food for the animals, medicine for the animals, slaughtering the animals, processing the meat is all factored into the total. Removing those extra steps and necessities makes meat production far more efficient and cost effective.
In class we discussed many things relating to this article. Early in the quarter we talked about the efficiency of eating meat against eating plants due to the cost of feeding the animals we eat instead of that food going directly to us. Later we learned about all the parts that make up a cell and the molecules that make up the parts. To "grow" meat these molecules are very important, the amino acids, nucleic acids, proteins, etc.
You stated the positive affects of producing meat without killing animals? Are there any negative components chemically with the macromolecules or in general about producing meat without killing animals?
ReplyDeleteThe video talks about how this lab grown meat can be good for us, the animals themselves and the planet. How would this alternative be good for the planet?
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