Would You Taste Giraffe Or Elephant Meat? Soon You May Have The Option

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Humans do love meat. But at the same time, we are pretty conservative with it. But soon we may get to try meat from exotic animals. Without harming any of them.

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The vast majority of meat we currently consume comes from fish, cows, chicken, and pigs. But it seems that soon we will get the chance to try out meat from much more exotic animals such as giraffes or elephants. Or maybe even dinosaurs.

But! If you like animals and you do not like harming them then you do not want to need to be worried. The meat will be grown in laboratories from stem cells. This field has recently seen huge progress and industrious people are getting ready to use this. For example, VOW Foods – a start-up that currently focuses on growing kangaroo meat. But their ambitions are far greater.

VOW Foods want to create sort of a Noe's Arc. But unlike Noe, they do not want to carry two of each animal on a ship but gather a collection of many different animals that could later be used to satisfy even the most demanding of gourmet tongues.

At the moment the majority of humans eat only a very limited selection of animals. Some of the reasons are very practical – most animals are very hard to breed or just do not produce enough meat for the amount of energy needed to breed them. Yet, some of them could provide amazing tastes, texture and nutritious profiles.

The second reason why humans do not eat a lot of animals is because we think of many of them as uneatable. Whether it is because they are on the brink of extinction or whether we consider them just too cute to eat.

I personally would be thrilled to have lab-grown-meat appear in shops. I love meat. Seriously. And I am not willing to cut it out of my diet. But if we had the option to grow it in laboratories without any side-effects I would prefer it to the breeding animals.

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I would, I imagine it would be lean as too

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On one hand, I agree about eating meat. I'm not willing to give it up, and I would feel much better about it if nothing were killed in its production. On the other hand, I suspect that lab-grown meat might be an existential threat to a number of animal species, if it becomes inexpensive enough to make farming or ranching unprofitable.

For example, in recent decades, we saw the American Bison rescued from the brink of extinction when people figured out how to ranch it profitably, and now the species is thriving. If you could buy lab-grown Bison meat for cheaper, what would happen to all the Bison on all the ranches that suddenly couldn't afford to maintain their herds?

Although it's counter-intuitive, if there's really a market for meat from things like giraffes or elephants, I wonder if the best thing for the species might be to follow the example of the American Bison and find ways to farm them and sell them legally.

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