Recently tried an Impossible burger and nuggets and thought that if nobody told me it wasn’t meat, I’d have thought the patty was made out of a weird kind of meat, rather than make a connection with the taste and texture of plants. Honestly, I might not complain if that was the only kind of “meat” I could have for the rest of my life.
Well, maybe I’d miss bacon.
I’ve yet to find the opportunity to try lab-grown meat, but I for sure would like to try it out and don’t see much wrong with it as long as it’s sustainable, reasonably priced, and doesn’t have anything you wouldn’t expect in a normal piece of meat.
Also, with imitation and lab-grown options, I’d no longer have to deal with the disgust factor of handling raw meat (esp. the juices) or biting into gristle. I’ll happily devour a hot dog, but something about an unexpected bit of cartilage gives me a lingering sense of revulsion.
Mushrooms are awesome when cooked like meat. I think I don’t need any weird non vegan lab meat thanks.
I do like Costco’s fake chicken legs and the impossible burger and the impossible chicken nugget. I agree those things are over processed foods and I’ll explain my worries. First of the machines all have stainless components rubbing around plastic components and food that may be acidic. That’s it. All the acid, rubbing, cooking etc can released hexavalent chrome from the machine parts and slowly poison you with plastic particles. In the end you don’t know if it was chrome, plastic, radiation, pesticides etc. You just get untreatable cancer and die.
My vegan life is better served with fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts etc. All natural and if the pistachios ever become sentient we’ll have a real phaking problem.