it’s because 90% of the beef crowd are just reactionaries against the green/woke people. They don’t have internally consistent beliefs
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so some people see lab grown meat as an extension of the green/woke movement and hate it for that reason alone??
Yes that’s a good way to put it. There’s the potential, I suppose, that once lab grown meet is available, things like natural raised meet will be marginalized. And that is kinda threatening.
Or one could view it as an extension of the processed food industry, which hasn’t been great for health.
It’s like the “I won’t eat the bugs” thing. I’m certain our ancestors ate bugs, they’re very nutritionally dense, and they could even be a way to be sovereign in your food production. But reactionary thinking does not lend itself to nuance.
I think you are right to some degree, I've been thinking a lot about this lately
Sometimes we think that being reactionary or having a believe that is not well grounded on data is something bad, I'm not so sure.
I think is an heuristic and as such it has it's flaws but can be of real use in cases when you dont have enough information or you need to act fast. Also for situations where the right answer is counterintuitive or come after some sort of point of no return has been reached. 🤔
In those cases even if it was just by chance, that strategy can be useful