StarGaurdianBard t1_izccesp wrote
Reply to comment by Mitthrawnuruo in Ben & Jerry's owner may launch ice cream made from cow-free dairy | The potential rise of lab-grown milk could result in amazing advances in the world of ice cream by chrisdh79
> no one wants lab grown food.
Speak for yourself. Not everyone is anti-science/afraid of progress. This is like saying "no one wants genetically modified food" but I gurantee the vast majority of people eat their modified corn and fruits just fine.
With how fast we are hunting various animals into extinction we either get used to lab grown food or get used to starvation.
Mitthrawnuruo t1_izce44e wrote
Actually, very few people eat genetically modified foods. Selective breeding is not the same as genetic modification. The only food that has met with commercial success for humans is an apple that doesn’t brown as quick. Things like genetically modified corn are used for animal feed, not people.
Which is pretty sad, considering what we can do, and what we are doing. I think we could improve many things by genetic modification, and would love to see it done on chestnut trees to see them return to their rightful place in American forests.
As to traditionally grown crops, there is a hell of a lot of science involved, and always has been.
You win no friends, or converts, with your uninformed and elitist view that lab grown is in some way superior, and traditionally grown foods are not the process of thousands of years of scientific advancement and study, ignorant of the fact that crops are probably the most scientifically studied thing in all of human history, at any point in human history, including the modern era.
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