flesh factory
Over at gf’s lanterna magica is an interesting exploration of a conversation based on an idea that came to me… “the flesh factory”
in this world of perpetual compromise, where we seem quite compelled to eat meat even if less than 2% of us have ever had experiences killing the animals we eat, perhaps a solution that entails less animal suffering and equal carnal (or at least close to equal) could be at least interesting if not advantageous.
Of course it is quite possible that our collective consciousness will transcend our spiritually infantile, obviously animalistic, desires to indulge in consuming meat. It is possible that this will occur before the technology to support the flesh factory is operational. It is possible that we will slow down our reproduction and increase of food production and decrease our polution rates enough to sustain life on this planet for another 100 years.
As always…
Other things are also possible…
PS - over at the Living Universe Foundation email list is a parallel topic:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/luf-team/message/8949
including a link to REAL research about growing meat:
/http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/archive/2006/co1-20invitro.html
