Subject:
|
Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:16:11 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1578 times
|
| |
|
|
> From: "Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net>
> > Lighten up Chris; I was being facetious. I'm actually greatly intrigued by
> > the notion of vat-grown food, as well as its implications for organ
> > production
> > for transplantation.
>
> Me too. That's just super cool, and the technology required would lead to all
> kinds of innovation. My fear, however, is that we've already harnessed the
> best way to produce meat and there is little economic incentive to produce it
> in vats.
>
> Chris
Perhaps not... think about all that's required to maintain, for instance,
Beef production. You need lots and lots of land, you need to keep your
cattle healthy, feed them, move them about, etc. If someone were to come up
with a relatively inexpensive method of vat-growing meat, it could be done
virtually anywhere. You could very nearly eliminate the disease factor, and
the transportation costs would come down as well, since you wouldn't need to
move the meat about.
I know I'm simplifying the matter greatly, but I'm sure there are many costs
that go into Beef production that aren't readily visible to us on the
consumer level.
I don't even want to get into the moral stuff, so let's skip that, shall we?
~Mark
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
149 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
