Synthetic Food

Given a potentially available alternative; would you still make it as a choice?

I’ve thought of posting some of the concoctions I’ve come up with, but like selfies… why? The only people that need to see it are the ones that eat it.

Does it’s appearance alone provide any nourishment?

Maybe. But I don’t think I could give up food that was once alive. Man, there’s a place near me where these guys are doing all kinds of crazy stuff. Rare venison just lightly seared and drizzled in some crazy sauce, duck confit, lamb shanks, stuffed rabbit, stuffed quail, I mean…I can’t just give that kind of stuff up.

I think you underestimate the creative potential.

Maybe. Show me something that’s better than a chunk of veal on top of some seared foie gras.

I’ve had veal. What about it did you find appealing? Honestly I couldn’t tell a difference between beef killed less then a year old and beef killed that was two years old.

Maybe life is that trivial.

It’s just a lot more tender. The texture is different. I don’t know why it’s any different for a cow to live a longer or shorter life. Kill them both I’ll eat both.

I am curious. You seem to have turned a discussion of synthetic food into a slaughter house.

But you really haven’t given any better reason then a preference.

I don’t see life as trivial. I just don’t think it’s wrong to eat meat. Most of these animals are bred for consumption. If it weren’t for people planning on eating them then they’d have no life at all. In a sense, the bit of life that they do get to experience is a result of that consumption.

Dude, I asked if you had a choice.

Synthetic food as an alternative was presented and the only difference was it didn’t involve killing anything to eat. It could be fashioned into any flavor or texture that was appealing to the palette, the only difference was it never lived.

How do you walk like a duck and act like a duck and not expect me to believe you aren’t talking like a duck too.

Well if the only difference was that it wasn’t once alive then no problem. But I am skeptical that such products exist.

Sorry, If that were the only difference and you could throw what ever financial resources in that direction that you could. I can’t speak for any other living form but thanks. Being eaten is not high on my to do list.

What if you could never have any life at all…OR…you could have a few good years of relaxing and grazing in a nice field where someone made sure you were healthy and fat but then you had to be eaten? Which would you choose?

I have posted on this circumstance before.

I don’t like it here one bit. I had no voice in being here. when the reaper comes it doesn’t hear no. And I’m not having much fun. Maybe some small amount of fun and I likely totally underestimate it’s fun as significant. I’ve got an ego that can match all others. No, I haven’t yet figured out that life is fun paradox.

If reincarnation were real I’m stuck in a 37,000 year loop.

I’m looking for teachers. Out of clues.

You mean like yourself? Or if you were a cow? Either way that’s pretty depressing. But wouldn’t life be inherently better than no life? Even if it weren’t fun?

You are a smart bloke. No, I don’t think having lived some , that some life is better then no life.

The inanimate stage is just as fascinating.

Non living matter, sort of gets left out of all the fun.

If some life isn’t any better than no life, then what do we lose by killing a baby cow? An I eat inanimate things too. I don’t discriminate.

perhaps the difference is overplayed.
A tree turns falls into substratum and fossilized into carbon. The pressures attained after drifting lower into the earth turns the carbon into diamond.
It takes may be hundreds of millions of years for it to take place, and not all organic material is placed under so much pressures.

bon appetit

You can’t eat diamonds, but you can trade them for a lot of food.

I don’t speak for any form of life but mine.

If me and the maker are having an issue, that has nothing to do with any other life. Don’t use my choice about my life in any regard as an excuse to how you tr-eat any other living thing. Get yourself up real close and personal with you.

Your life is yours to do with as you wish. If there is ability, cut the rest of life a similar slack. Crave what you will.