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149 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 20h \ on: The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food food_and_drinks
OR we could use sustainable farming techniques... I do not like this one bit.
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I agree. The only hope is if people (the market) demand different meat. Right now its just hipsters and the wealthy. I've been buying direct as much as I can from regen ranches and farms for the last 4-5 years now. The quality is so much better.
And that is how we win this. These lab grown and feed lot methods are not only bad quality but bad for our local environments. Sustainable farming is not just not bad, it can improve the local environments. That's on top of the quality improvement.
The nut jobs that think meat is the problem aren't the real problem though. Its fiat driving people to the lowest margin products. Money is the motivator for all of this IMO.
Pisses me off and I have to step away from thinking about it to much. Its so obvious to me and so not obvious to most people. The centrality of the fiat system wrecking so much of our world and cultures.
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I don't expect the market to wake up about this stuff anytime soon. I suspect that'll take so very long that we'll produce actually healthy lab grown meats before that happens.
We'll lose all the grassland benefits of sustainably raised ruminants, which is probably the worst consequence of this kind of "modernization," but getting the world to scale that up is another seemingly intractable education problem.