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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 09:46 PM Original message |
Poll question: Would you eat "cloned" (in-vitro) meat? |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. I vote maybe |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yes. Protein is protein. I don't particularly care whether it was once attached to a sentient. nt |
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name not needed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. Can't be any worse than the shit they make hot dogs out of |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 10:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Corner the market now on test-tube-shaped hot dogs! |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. Would you eat hydroponic or hot-house grown vegetables? |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 09:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. What do you think of the source article? |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:20 AM Response to Reply #4 |
31. Yeah! Plus, scientists put Flouride in our water and that's what the Nazi's killed the Jews with .. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:26 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. "OMG, I think my dentist is a Nazi!" |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #31 |
53. Urge that one to run for office. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 03:25 PM Response to Reply #53 |
61. You becha! |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
6. never met a meat i didn't like. except those kabobs the other day. ERRRPPP!!! |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. As a vegan, I'll fess up to "It's Complicated." |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 04:10 AM Response to Reply #7 |
42. A sci-fi author wrote a short story a few years ago... |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. That's funny; that was one of my first questions here. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 01:40 PM Response to Reply #45 |
52. Harry Turtledove in his short story collection "Departures" |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. I spent 20 years in the Navy, a lot of it eating on Aircraft Carriers... |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. What a glowing endorsement! |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
10. Probably, but you first, please. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 10:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Let's try Mikey! |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
12. Sure |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. Yep, and I'm vegan. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:20 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. So you'd be a vitro-tarian? |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Once you take the actual animal out of the equation |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Frankentarian? Beakertarian? Tankitarian? |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
15. How would I know it if I was eating some? |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. That does raise an interesting set of side questions: |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
16. I use a food replicator personally. |
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Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
17. Massive slabs of muscle mass, limp, shapeless, errant hairs here and there... |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Muscle doesn't grow hair |
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TroglodyteScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:00 AM Response to Reply #17 |
28. You've got a funny imagination, but... |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
19. This is something I've been thinking about for many years now. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
22. I eat meat for the taste |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
23. Hell no. Don't care where it comes from, I'm not putting that shit into my body. |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
25. I eat tofu, I'd eat clones. |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-18-09 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. I'd have to make the switch to "long pig" before I'd eat that shit. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
29. Any "Maybe" responders want to clarify why/when/how? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:18 AM Response to Original message |
30. Sure would, it's a brilliant, enviromentally-friendly idea! |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
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Feron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
34. Depends. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
35. Yes. I most likely would. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
36. I dunno, I can't really envision it being the same |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #36 |
47. That's a good question. Did you see this part of the article? |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
37. echoing the thoughts of others... growing up, i was told hot dogs were made from... |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 02:33 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. No, don't want anyone to "wretch," retch, or be wretched. |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 02:41 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. well then, there you go. no matter how you spell it, we are OK with this new development... |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 03:53 AM Response to Original message |
40. At the end of the day, it comes down to taste. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 04:04 AM Response to Original message |
41. Ha! |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #41 |
50. Cannibalism or haute cuisine? |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 01:38 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. I had thought of extinct animals... |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #51 |
57. Rand roast? Hitler hocks? Gandhi gravy? |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 07:29 AM Response to Original message |
43. I am a vegetarian, but I must admit that I get a craving |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
44. It's Chicken Little™ |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
46. Ick - gross, barf! No fucking way. |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
48. Throw a little garlic and butter in that vitro and call me for dinner! |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
49. And further alienation from reality continues |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
54. Meh. Ain't nothing. |
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smalll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
55. If it ends up costing less than "regular" meat, sure. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Current projections say 1/2 the cost of "real" meat. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 04:24 PM Response to Reply #56 |
64. I'd be willing to pay (somewhat) more for the same thing + a reduced environmental hit, too |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. That leads me to wonder about the initial marketing: |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 05:48 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. I'd imagine 'yes' is the answer if it was relatively easy to produce. (nt) |
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Phoonzang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
58. Hell YES. It's cleaner than what you get at the supermarket. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 03:05 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Some people "whine" about torture, poverty, equality, etc. |
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Phoonzang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 03:23 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. All of which I consider more noble pursuits than worrying about |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 03:43 PM Response to Reply #60 |
62. Hey, good for you. Still doesn't make it whining. (nt) |
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galledgoblin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
63. maybe... I'd have to research it when it happens. |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-19-09 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
67. I'm a vegetarian |
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