Food

Gee, imagine that. Heck that is why kids and others like it so much. Usually, it isn't called health food for a reason. James

it starts with the cost of fuel…and gets worse with the demand for biofuels. We’re in deep poo right now.

 

I think we have to grow more hemp. Hemp seeds can feed people. It can also be used for fuel.

Where does hunting fit in with all of this? Sure, a lot of greens may not identify with hunters; but I’m not talking about sitting in an idling truck until a critter wanders by, then blasting away. I’m talking about ethical hunting: getting up pre-dawn, walking for miles into the wilderness, sneaking up, and killing only when it can be done quickly and painlessly. And for the purpose of providing food.

Lots of people make their own beer. Why? Not because its significantly cheaper than a fine professioinally-made, tasty, store-bought microbrew. Rather, people make their own beer because it gives them a closer connection to what they consume.

Likewise with In Vitro Meat production (Yuk, that is a bad name!). It might be possible , but it distances the human with their source of sustanance- making humans more uncaring and wasteful of the product.

Producing meat might be beneficial ecologically/economically/antiboitically/morally. But what effect does it have psychologically on the humans?

plants/trees/shrubs/creepers  are only living beings which do not eat other living beings and create their own food with the help of  5 elements of universe namely space and matter (matter is earth/land,fire,water and air.).they live longest.can mankind  take plants as role model and with the help of science,engineering and technology, create synthetic food out of 5 elements for all living beings including human,animals,birds that crawl,swim and fly.Then man can claim to be highest living creation among all that live.I toyed/wondered with this  idea for a verrrry long time.

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sundarrajan balaji

meat is murder. period.  domestication is worse than slavery and torture, and this comes from a life long vegetarian, who can prove it is completely unnecessary and unhealthy.  Lab grown meat is even sicker becuase like GMO it is dangerously messing with life’s balance and has unknown consuquences.

Great article.  Interfacing with the global food crisis, and the current drive toward more ethical and environmentally friendly production practices, this is an interesting option.  I still prefer my grass-fed beef, but I’d rather eat this stuff than go hungry!  You prompted an entry  on my own downtoearthblog.com.

Why not? "No animal was actually harmed in producing this steak." The peoples want lots of cheap meat and they’ve never been picky about the quality. The people who really do care about the quality of their meat will, presumably, be willing to pay more for and eat less of less intensively produced, free range, antibiotic-free, naturally aged (in those traditions of charcuterie that age beef) meat that is raised in far lower quantities than at present. (Or raise it/hunt it themselves.) If this brings down the grotesque structure of raising/slaughering/packing for max volume at min price that we have now (and I am certainly not a vegetarian saying this), all the better. Plus no need for antibiotic use, which is probably the single most harmful practice, in human terms, of intensive animal husbandry.