Synthetic Food

Maybe. Show me something that’s better than a chunk of veal on top of some seared foie gras.

I’ve had veal. What about it did you find appealing? Honestly I couldn’t tell a difference between beef killed less then a year old and beef killed that was two years old.

Maybe life is that trivial.

It’s just a lot more tender. The texture is different. I don’t know why it’s any different for a cow to live a longer or shorter life. Kill them both I’ll eat both.

I am curious. You seem to have turned a discussion of synthetic food into a slaughter house.

But you really haven’t given any better reason then a preference.

I don’t see life as trivial. I just don’t think it’s wrong to eat meat. Most of these animals are bred for consumption. If it weren’t for people planning on eating them then they’d have no life at all. In a sense, the bit of life that they do get to experience is a result of that consumption.

Dude, I asked if you had a choice.

Synthetic food as an alternative was presented and the only difference was it didn’t involve killing anything to eat. It could be fashioned into any flavor or texture that was appealing to the palette, the only difference was it never lived.

How do you walk like a duck and act like a duck and not expect me to believe you aren’t talking like a duck too.

Well if the only difference was that it wasn’t once alive then no problem. But I am skeptical that such products exist.

Sorry, If that were the only difference and you could throw what ever financial resources in that direction that you could. I can’t speak for any other living form but thanks. Being eaten is not high on my to do list.

What if you could never have any life at all…OR…you could have a few good years of relaxing and grazing in a nice field where someone made sure you were healthy and fat but then you had to be eaten? Which would you choose?

I have posted on this circumstance before.

I don’t like it here one bit. I had no voice in being here. when the reaper comes it doesn’t hear no. And I’m not having much fun. Maybe some small amount of fun and I likely totally underestimate it’s fun as significant. I’ve got an ego that can match all others. No, I haven’t yet figured out that life is fun paradox.

If reincarnation were real I’m stuck in a 37,000 year loop.

I’m looking for teachers. Out of clues.

You mean like yourself? Or if you were a cow? Either way that’s pretty depressing. But wouldn’t life be inherently better than no life? Even if it weren’t fun?

You are a smart bloke. No, I don’t think having lived some , that some life is better then no life.

The inanimate stage is just as fascinating.

Non living matter, sort of gets left out of all the fun.

If some life isn’t any better than no life, then what do we lose by killing a baby cow? An I eat inanimate things too. I don’t discriminate.

perhaps the difference is overplayed.
A tree turns falls into substratum and fossilized into carbon. The pressures attained after drifting lower into the earth turns the carbon into diamond.
It takes may be hundreds of millions of years for it to take place, and not all organic material is placed under so much pressures.

bon appetit

You can’t eat diamonds, but you can trade them for a lot of food.

I don’t speak for any form of life but mine.

If me and the maker are having an issue, that has nothing to do with any other life. Don’t use my choice about my life in any regard as an excuse to how you tr-eat any other living thing. Get yourself up real close and personal with you.

Your life is yours to do with as you wish. If there is ability, cut the rest of life a similar slack. Crave what you will.

Man always makes a mess of things. Synthetic food will probably be cancerous, deficient, toxic and produce all kinds of problems, but these problems, which’ll be suppressed by the synthetic food companies, won’t be ascertained for decades or even centuries after it comes out, and a great deal of damage has already been done.

Of course. Duh!

The we used to eat, at least, was food that came from organisms that we coevolved with and which changed very slowly over time, and the changes had to be harmonic to the organisms as a whole. IOW they had to thrive, be able to procreate, and so on. Now companies notorious for lying, fudging science, controlling their own oversight and breaking the law are making fake food, doing it fast, jamming it onto markets. And they push this ‘we are saving the world’ when in fact it is just about money.