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Chloe Leffakis's avatar

Very informative article! I hope the plant-based food system happens sooner rather than later.

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Josh Baldwin's avatar

I was so scared you were going to leave me in a pile of depression about plant-based meats :)

I find plant-based meats funny though. We take plants, then turn them into something meat like. That is still inefficient! Just because it is far more efficient than raising animals, wouldn't we still be better off just eating the plants? But, we have only started in this sector of biotechnology. I have no doubt in 10-20 years we will be eating plant-based meats that unlike any of the flesh we find in the wild.

On an anti-specieist note, what we eat influences our morals (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195666310003648?via%3Dihub=). When people don't eat animals, they no longer have to do mental gymnastics to defend why it is okay to eat animals. So as plant-based meats rise, I expect more regular everyday folks to start giving moral status to animals they currently eat. Then we start passing those meat banning laws, starting in Berkeley of course ;)

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