U.S approves of Lab-Grown Meat

It is a new frontier. But the principle is still the same. Pacinoyes is making it seem like we engaging in cloning or re-creating a new live chicken. Are you guys against test-tube babies as well? The fact of matter is, you guys have no issue with eating McDonalds meat, eat a Wendy's Pretzel Burger with fried onions on it, smoke cigarettes, and have tattoos. None of which is good for your system or the environment. Christianity was referenced too -- which is 100% against eating shellfish and pork. Lab-grown meat is actually good for our society - reduces carbon footprint and doesn't slaughter or mistreat animals. Being "new" (GMOS and lab-grown food has been around for at least the last 10 years) doesn't mean we can distort the product. I am all for trying this. I am skeptical about the taste.

Speak for yourself. I am disgusted by all of those except for tattoos... which are only a health risk if you or the artist are failing to keep the skin/instruments clean, AFAIK. It doesn't really deserve to be lumped in with the others.

I don't call for dismissing this out of hand, but I also don't want to jump right in. I think everyone should keep an eye open and not trust it until there has been time to analyze health benefits/risks. I don't trust the FDA to have the good of the consumer in mind for one goddamn second. As for GMOs being a thing, I try to stay away from them because I don't trust the little mothers.

I think we're speaking in circles now, so we should probably leave off. Cross-breeding and GM food is not the same, first of all. And in the case of food, I'd want decades of study on human guinea pigs before I eat it myself. I'd be fine with it in small quantities, but I don't think we have the evidence yet to know long term effects.

If everyone else wants to eat it, fine... but that also means that it will be harder to find the real thing, since this *will* get pushed down our throats.  That upsets me, as it has a personal impact on me.

That said, I likely won't live long enough for eating or not eating this stuff to matter to my health.

I am Catholic too. Nobody ever did either. But look at Leviticus 11:19 and 11:7. The point here is that people eat unethical, unhealthy, unholy food all the time. GMOs are growing in popularity.

I eat what I want. Never took the bible seriously, but there are people out there who do. And yes, we will have to agree to disagree on Lab-created chicken. :-)

* I think the "Christianity" argument which was raised by me - as a joke ffs - reverts only to Creation - as in Frankenstein etc - the posts about what the Bible says about shellfish are meaningless to the actual point raised

* Speaking of meaningless - would you rather eat Scary McLab Poultry or Go Suck a Rock?? - now Rocks don't have to be made in a lab so obviously they are preferable to Horrible Experiment Without Feathers from a Creation POV ..........on the other hand they are you know .......just f'n Rocks ........Martin Stett who should be highly amused by this and fits in with his sense of humor  - you're just supposed to suck 'em (that's what she said) - but like What Came First, the Lab Created Chicken or the Lab Created Egg (um) - what could possibly go wrong?

* Side note: Yeah, I get it - "Chinese Rocks" (Heartbreakers version) is one of the greatest songs of all time....... but that was just about heroin which is probably safer tbh