Andrew Lilico tweets:
People seem to imagine there’ll be a “Yuck!” factor barrier to lab-grown meat. But a) in a sausage or burger are you even going to notice? And b) if you think “Yuck!” about lab-grown meat, wait til you find out how they produce non-lab-grown meat!
And “Discount Davy Jones” immediately responds thus:
Step 1: vat grown meat is a luxury, rich people eat it to look better than animal-killing proles.
Step 2: vat grown meat is cheap enough for everybody and becomes a staple of fast food.
Step 3: rich people start eating expensive animal meat because it’s more authentic.
Lilico:
That’s exactly how it’ll work.
Me: Yes, probably. But add in that at some point regular meat will be made illegal, at which point there will be a thriving black market in it.
When good things happen, “progressives” (the sneer quotes because these people typically get in the way of progress rather than make any significant contribution to it) always try to get on the front of the trend by making whatever it is illegal, compulsory, whatever, thus … well, getting in the way of progress, in this case by bullying the old and recalcitrant, and by introducing criminals into the mix.
Nevertheless, I do think it will be progress when we mostly become much nicer to animals, by not imprisoning them and then eating them on the huge scale we do now.
ISIBAISIA, although I couldn’t quickly find where (that link is to a posting about Modern Art): The planet earth is becoming one gigantic zoo.
I agree with you about being nicer to animals. Then I look at the cows in the field by my house and think: that doesn’t look like such a bad life. Especially compared to wild animals who live in a perpetual state of abject poverty.
There’s the impending slaughterhouse, sure, but we all have the occasional bad day.