• MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The moment corporations see they are cheaper, they’ll start pushing for them, exaggerating their benefits like environmental impact as a propaganda tool.

    But there would still be slaughtered meats for as long as there are rich assholes paying for “the true experience” or just because it’s not something everyone gets to do and they like to feel unique and superior to the rest of humanity.
    Knowing those out-of-touch monsters, they’d double down in ‘the experience’ by getting to slaughter the animal themselves or something like that.

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      4 days ago

      rich assholes paying for “the true experience”

      See also: “actually lab diamonds are too perfect, the subtle imperfections and discolorations really enhance the je ne se quoi of blood diamonds”

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      Honestly, that’s almost a perfect win. If farming animals for meat becomes something for the 0.01%, imagine how much better things would be. How much less strain we’d put on the planet, and how much animal suffering would be prevented.

      And we’d be only a few guillotines away from a full solution.

      • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        You will always need farmers growing cows to constantly produce new ‘original samples’, tho. But they would have to focus on quality rather than quantity, and the animal would not have to be slaughtered for muscle samples.
        So that would keep them from going extinct without humans.