Warum kultiviertes oder im Labor gezüchtetes Fleisch nicht nur sicher und ethisch ist, sondern auch eine intelligente Möglichkeit zur Proteingewinnung darstellt
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/why-cultivated-or-lab-grown-meat-is-not-only-safe-and-ethical-but-also-a/article_e1132b94-17b6-11ef-bc72-2b4e80d02788.html
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In simple terms, cultivated meat — also known as cultured, cell-based or clean meat — is real meat grown from real animals, but only from a few cells, using bioreactors. No mass breeding, no factory farming, no antibiotics, no assembly-line slaughter necessary.
While cultivated meat has yet to hit the mainstream and is not yet available in Canada, some products are currently on the market elsewhere, including in the U.S. and Singapore.
For proponents, the products offer solutions to many of the problems plaguing our flawed food system, including how to feed 10 billion people by 2050. Animal agriculture is already using up 83 per cent of available farm land (about 44 per cent of all habitable land) on earth, while only providing 18 per cent of our calories and 37 per cent of our protein. Talk about an inefficient system.
For those against the cultivated meat solution, though — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who recently signed a bill criminalizing its production and sale — it is an “affront to nature and creation,” as Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois said last year.
But positioning cultured meat as “fake” and “unnatural” while comparing it to “wholesome” and “traditional” animal farming couldn’t be more ironic, as modern factory farming is anything but natural. Today’s farmed animals are selectively bred to grow bigger and faster than ever before. They are crammed into massive sheds or have large swaths of land cleared for feedlots.
But- but- the ranching industry! We can’t just fund a cleaner, more compact, less antibiotic-intensive, less water-wasting, less fertilizer-using alternative to traditionally-raised cattle! That would be *unamerican!*
Seriously though. These new ways need to be heavily funded, studied, and propagated. There will always be someone who wants a born-and-raised steak, but I don’t think most people would care. And if we can eliminate even *half* of the abovementioned industry in favor of cultivated meat? That’s gonna take a HUGE load off a number of very big problems.
Cultured meat is going to be ripe for abuse. You’re going to see scandals around food safety and decreased nutritional value over time in the interest of profits.
No man-made bioreactor is going to beat the systems nature has created, which is the animal itself.
I don’t care how my meat is grown, be it field or be it lab. It just needs to taste good and have an appetizing texture.
I’d rather have natural meat. I’m not talking about mass produced, steroid riddled, water infused shite. Just meat from a normal and well raised animal. Unfortunately, that type of produce is getting harder and harder to find.