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3D printed meat could soon be cheap and tasty enough to win youover
On 3/7/2013 1:36 PM, ****wit David Harrison - *Goo* - a convicted felon,
lied:
> On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:20:14 GMT, and/or www.mantra.com/jai
> (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>
>> 3D printed meat could soon be cheap and tasty enough to win you over
>>
>> By Ryan Whitwam
>> geek.com
>> February 12, 2013
>>
>> The next time you’re about to bite into a hamburger, take
>> a moment to consider the resources that went into making
>> it. In a recent Solve for X talk, Andras Forgacs laid out
>> all the statistics, and explained how tantalizingly close
>> we are to a more sustainable method of meat production.
>> Basically, humanity may soon be 3D printing meat instead
>> of growing it in an animal.
>
> Something like that will be the eventual end of livestock raising, like
> machinery was the end of the need for work horses. There will still be a few
> around in zoos and odd farms, but there won't be billions of them experiencing
> life because they're raised for food.
Exactly. And that has no moral meaning at all - *zero*.
> The same will be true for chickens etc. In
> some cases I believe that overall will be a "good" thing like the case of cage
> raised laying hens, and the brothers of most laying hens including cage free. In
> others I don't believe it would necessarily be good or better from an overall
> pov since I believe lives of positive value for livestock is a positive thing in
> the overall.
Meaningless.
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