Laboratory Meat

[Ectezus]

You do realize that if we can successfully terraform a planet we can simply grow livestock on it, and by virtue of being terraformed it would also have plants? I just ask this because if we terraform Mars then we have basically created another Earth where we can do there what we can do there without your need for food pills and foam, which would deny man the pleasure of going out and killing a deer or ripping into a juicy porterhouse.

Terraform mars? Any idea how long it takes to transform a whole planet? That won't happen in a loooong time, if ever.

The first step would be conquering space and living on mars (or the moon) in domes. I'm sure we won't be bringing any cow breeding domes and a slaughterhouse dome with us.

Are you suggesting that when we humans become a space faring society we should still feed life animals, pump em full of steroids, vitamins and what not so they grow asap, house them into small compartments meaning they have a miserable life and then kill em for some juicy meat?

We humans long ago started out as hunters and from there that concept took us to the absurdness we now see today in the bioindustry. Ever been in one? It's quite horrific and inhumane.

And for what? Don't get me wrong I love a good stake but meat isn't all that nutritious, contains no fibers, causes most of the food poisoning and is high in fat and cholesterol.
Meat is not vital to our survival, we can live perfectly without. The only reason we eat meat is because we're used to it from old times as hunter-gatherers and it tastes good.

Something that's not vital, not even all that healthy, takes up way to much space and causes unnecessary animal suffering is not going to have any place in space when the only benefit is "it tastes good".

- Ectezus