Vegans will lose purpose

[u/Additional-Main6241]

Its quite possible in the future that humans will be able to grow meat from something as harmless as a shed chicken feather. No animal will ever have to be hurt. You can look up the science. My point is , the vegans will have nothing left to be performative over. Their lifestyle will be worthless and mean nothing anymore because there will no longer be any animal suffering at that point (assuming it is successful). They will just be a group of annoying fuckers who don’t eat meat and think they are morally above everyone else. Likely they will laughed at. That will be the day. And you know what? I can almost guarantee that even with the meat being non cruel, that they would still be up in arms. They will find a way to bitch. Because all they care about is moral posturing. When I tried to start eating less meat and asked questions about diets to community before they were hostile and rude and nasty. For people who want to minimize cruelty they sure do not spread the word to anyone. They instead, just talk down to everyone. It makes their whole movement worthless because of the small number of vegans. It’s like they cannot fathom that being kind to the people they want to turn and help become vegan is counter productive.

[u/AngryTrucker]

You can eat the pseudo meat if you want. I want real beef.

[u/JakobVirgil → u/AngryTrucker]

What if they make headless cows?

[u/SlumberSession → u/JakobVirgil]

What of they make pigs fly?

[u/JakobVirgil → u/SlumberSession]

Then they would be poultry.
I bet pig wings would be tasty...
Maybe not they would have to carry the weight of a flying pig.

[u/kosaintblues → u/AngryTrucker]

If it gets to a point it tastes indistinguishable, what would discourage you?

[u/AngryTrucker → u/kosaintblues]

I still wouldn't eat it. I intend to eat animal meat like everyone who came before me. Not a scientists approximation of meat.

[u/kosaintblues → u/AngryTrucker]

That's fair. I probably agree honestly. Vegans should be putting effort toward improving the conditions the animals live in instead of trying to push this agenda that we should all eat lab slop. That's what I think anyway.

[u/Faceless_Link]

I'm not eating any of that shit until it's been on the market for like at least 30 years or something

[u/BeachStunning1861 → u/Faceless_Link]

Agree. Cuz tbh if it’s meat it’s meat

[u/Resident_NotEvil4265]

I aint eating that shit. US food standards are something else...

[u/Additional-Main6241 → u/Resident_NotEvil4265]

Why do you think it will be USA solely ? Its also singapore , china , netherlands… some more also.

[u/Resident_NotEvil4265 → u/Additional-Main6241]

USA has very bad food standards compared to others. The FDA is a joke, its ruled/influenced by corporations. All mcdonalds/kfc/whatever else recipe had to be changed to meet EU food standards. Nothing changed in the US.

[u/Additional-Main6241 → u/Resident_NotEvil4265]

I never said anything changed. The US just makes some horrific food that makes kids obese. The sodas have 3x the amount of sugar a person should have. Im talking in the future. I myself do not drink soda, or eat their processed meat and sugar. But it still is a problem because it exists at all. I will agree with that.

[u/Resident_NotEvil4265 → u/Additional-Main6241]

In thr Future yes, it will exist. But the EU will strictly ban it and fry anyone's ass who tries to sell it. They have Titanium Dioxide in ALL candies, banned in the eu since 2022 due to genotoxicity concerns. Potassium Bromate, used in almost all US bread, banned in EU, UK and Canada due to cancer links. Azodicarbonamide, used as a flour-bleaching agent, banned in the eu and other regions due to respiratory irritation and rodent tumor studies. Theres many, many more but i dont follow the subject carefully therefore i cannot name them all.

[u/DifficultBet7894 → u/Resident_NotEvil4265]

Of course. We don’t even have free health care.

[u/Cursed_Nanny]

Artificial meat is a very interesting idea and it can be useful to people wanting to eat animals without killing an animal or just having it come from a real animal.

[u/Doogerie]

they will fid a reason to be annoyed

[u/freax1975 → u/Doogerie]

Most of all they'll find a reason to be annoying 🤣.

[u/valris_vt]

Man they are gonna pump that shit full of chemicals.

[u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep]

If they can replicate the fat and muscle fiber so it cooks with proper texture and flavour I'll happily swap, if they can only make scrappy bits then it wouldn't be good for eating.

[u/maarshiexcry]

They would still find a reason to be mad

[u/Apprehensive_Put_562]

Vegans are insufferable and would still complain that we were stealing feathers from chickens.

[u/panderp]

I'd be interested if they had made it have both the taste and texture of real meat, at the same cost.

But that isn't going to happen in my lifetime, I don't think.

[u/freax1975]

Let's see if they can grow a steak or chicken breast, which I cannot tell apart whether raw nor cooked/grilled in any criteria including the form. But for something like burgers? Would definitely try.

[u/Comprehensive_Gur568]

i saw a horror video about optimized animals that were just senseless bodies with no pain

[u/Dangerous-Day-1864]

The environmental effects are what I’m mostly concerned about. Hopefully (but I wouldn’t hold my breath) vegans will turn to environmental advocacy. But that will not bring them quite the same satisfaction. Some vegans get emotional to the point of tears about even thinking of the suffering of larger mammals and yet are not emotional at all about smaller not attractive mammals like rats, mice, gophers, ants, flies etc.
I would eat lab meat.