• GeenVliegtuig@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I know at least one person that has preemptively rejected cultivated meat because it requires the death of an animal.

    Even though they know that a single animal’s death could then spare uncountable billions of future animals.

    … does that make the chicken sampled for cultivation Chicken Jesus?

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      If you’re going to start rejecting things because even one animal died in the process of making them, you’d have to say goodbye to much of modern medicine too.

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        I would argue at some point they would need to reject modern living as a whole. Go build an A frame in the woods. Forage for berries and shit. Many aspects of the ways we live cause deaths. Like cars hitting animals. So if a single animal is too much, I have a feeling they should really be following that mindset.

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          The amount of animals killed by a modern farm tractor combine passing through is enormous. Its just that we don’t count “vermin” like that life. And most people who are vegan will never see it.

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      That person is incorrect and should read up on the subject. They take cells from a live animal, like a biopsy. The animal is otherwise unharmed.