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That's an interesting point, as I have plenty of friends who don't like red meat because of the taste. I like my beef rare, so I don't have that issue. But I'm guessing the point of creating this meat is to stop slaughtering animals for food...but that brings up another interesting issue - what happens to them then? Will we keep cows and sheep, without a profit, just for fun? Will we let them roam wild? Sounds impossible, where can they do that really, nowadays? And do they just reproduce as much as they want and start becoming a massive population? Shall we keep turkeys as pets? Overall, it would be hard to stop consuming "real" meat. There are A LOT of cows and sheep etc. out there. If we stop, there will be a major hitch in "balance" in terms of natural selection. Sure, it's not natural now, there are so many humans to so little of everything else. But it's a balance of sorts. Humans are probably not going to stop increasing in population any time soon. Is there room for that many more animals, if we stop preying on them? I know this is a sensitive issue but I think you'll agree that there are some interesting issues at stake here.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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