u/explorerofbells - originally from r/GenZhou
Hey comrades,
I’m a part of a discord server called Vegan Theory Club that’s run by mix of leftist tendencies. It’s a theory club that’s explicitly leftist and vegan, but we talk about more than just the book of the month.
We just started reading Eternal Treblinka - Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson, which we voted for. (Our last book was Kapital.) Right now is the perfect time to join!
We’d love to have you!
u/bongmom420 - originally from r/GenZhouWhat you have written is incorrect. For lab grown meat to be made, stem cells from whichever organism whose meat is being grown must be harvested. Now granted, this is far less cruel and invasive than slaughtering an animal for their meat, but to say that lab grown meat doesn’t involve harvesting organic tissue from an animal is not factual. For example, most lab grown beef is made using stem cells collected from bovine umbilical cord blood. Eukaryotic literally just means that a cell has a nucleus containing its genetic material. So, I’m sorry, but to say that lab grown meat can be made from a “cell culture, indistinguishable from any eukaryotic cell” is just false. I think lab grown meat is definitely a step in the right direction towards a societal wide solution to our unsustainable and cruel eating habits, but I don’t think it’s THE solution. It definitely has a role to play though in reducing the massive environmental impact of western diets.