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The main problem I think most vegetarians have with eating meat is that you have to kill something to get it. But what if you didn't? With a little genetic tweaking, I'll bet a cow could be rigged up with an extra, vestigal limb growing off of it's head or something. I'm sure there are some already.
With a bit of extra work, it could be set to detach and regrow painlessly, on a monthly cycle for easy collection. It'd be better for farmers also, as they woudn't have to keep breeding so many cows, instead just keeping one until it runs out of Legs.
Genetic Engineering Idea Moratorium
http://www.halfbake...20Idea_20Moratorium
[-alx, Nov 20 2001]
Sphum!
http://www.time.com...uture/digital5.html
The future of potted meat. [Guncrazy, Nov 20 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
http://www.halfbake...a/edible silica gel
[snarfyguy, Nov 20 2001]
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When a celery stalks you, and you pull a knife out and cut it up - is it murder? |
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"C'mon Pa! Time to harvest the cow parts!" |
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The GE Moratorium aside (*I* didn't vote for it) this sounds gross. I envision fields of rotting flesh because the farmer was sick during cow harvest season. |
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It's this sort of thing that made me go veggie in the first place. |
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An alternative to an meat that wants to be eaten is meat that doesn't know it's meat. You could grow muscle tissue in artificial environments, and harvest when they've reached the desired thickness--early harvest for jerky, normal harvest for steak, late harvest for roasts. |
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And think of the possibilities of this technology...(link) |
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I like this idea better than the GE idea of growing animal
organs and steak in labratories. We can finally put cloning
technology to good, active, living use. We could further
inject cows with armordillo skin genes and give the cows
impenetrable hides, which would help prevent any
unneeded deaths.
People say to quit discussing GE because of the
improbable. To them, I say, "get off the Internet, crawl in
a hole, and write with a stick in the mud, luddites."
Galileo proposed some improbable theories about the sun
and we're lucky he brought them to the public arena for
discussion and exploration. |
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Just followed the link on Sphum! |
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Yeah - silica gel! (see link) |
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If I cared about the morals of my food, I'd eat only fruit, eggs, and dairy products, as the producing organisms aren't killed, and make them whether you eat them or not. |
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Didn't the pythagoreans eat only beans and pulses for this very reason (or possibly to provide sufficient fuel for their fart-powered pencil sharpeners)? |
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You'd think all the wind passing would disturb their sand diagrams. |
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In A Planet called Treason by Orson Scott Card, this is done with humans. The organs are sold to another planet in exchange for iron. I think they used them the way we use organs from organ donars, but I'm not sure and I don't want to think about it too hard... |
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The planet was a prison planet, and the extra parts were sold to other humans as transplants to get the only metal available on the planet. |
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Stu --- the Pythagoreans were vegetarians, but they
refused to eat beans. The usual explanation I see is that
they thought that people came from beans, which makes
little sense; one less-prudish source claimed that they
thought beans looked too much like testicles, a
statement that I can see being bowdlerized into the
previous non-explanation. Anyway, they didn't eat beans.
Apparently, they were frequently mocked about the
whole bean thing. |
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